Residence
264 High Street, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 229411
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 264 High Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the recessed gable roof form that traverses the site, together with two gables and a flat roofed corner verandah porch that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed double hung windows arranged as a pair and as a horizontal bank of three and supported by worked timber brackets, front timber and glazed? door with sidelights, square timber verandah posts grouped as a pair and as three and the painted brick piers with concrete cappings, window leadlighting, gable brackets and the decorative gable infill (brackets, shingling, roughcast panelling and timber battening).
The house at 264 High Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Belmont Hill Estate subdivision of 1911.
Overall, the house at 264 High Street is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Belmont Hill Estate subdivision plan, August, 1911, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
2. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1931-32, 1933-34, 1934-35, 1935-36, 1942-43, 1955-57, 1957-60.
3. Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, 1960, Barwon Water Profis system.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The house at 264 High Street has typical front and side setbacks, with a driveway along the side. These setbacks are shown on the 1960 GWST Plan of Drainage.3 The front is bound by a timber picket fence, approximately 1200mm high.
The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, interwar Californian Bungalow is characterised by a recessed gable roof form that traverses the site, together with two gables and a flat roofed corner verandah porch that project towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in painted, lapped galvanised corrugated iron. Wide overhangs and exposed rafters are features of the eaves. The early timber framed double hung windows are arranged as a pair and horizontal bank of three on the street facade, and are supported by worked timber brackets. The front timber and glazed? door with sidelights is also early.
A feature of the design is the flat roofed corner verandah porch. It is supported by early square timber posts grouped as a pair and as three which in turn are supported by painted brick piers with concrete cappings.
Early decorative features of the design include the window leadlighting, gable brackets and the gable infill (brackets, shingling, roughcast panelling and timber battening).
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - City of Greater Geelong Belmont Heritage Reports
Author: Dr David Rowe
Year: 2007
Grading: C
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