Residence
266 High Street, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 229413
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 266 High Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant and recessed hipped and gabled roof that traverses the site, together with a minor gable and flat roofed verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, unpainted brick chimney, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed double hung windows arranged as banks of three on the street facade with their upper lights being six and four paned, front timber and glazed door and sidelights, window hood (extension of verandah), square timber verandah posts with decorative curved timber brackets, capped timber balustrade, and the decorative gable infill (shingling and ventilator).
The house at 266 High Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Belmont Hill Estate subdivision of 1911.
Overall, the house at 266 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, 1918-19, 1919-20, 1920-21, 1923-24, 1927-28, 1931-32, 1936-37, 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 266 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 recent timber picket fence, approximately 1100mm high.
The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, interwar Californian Bungalow is characterised by a dominant and recessed hipped and gabled roof that traverses the site, together with a minor gable and flat roofed verandah that project towards the street frontage. These roof forms appear to be clad in galvanised corrugated iron. An early unpainted brick chimney adorns the roofline. Wide overhangs and exposed rafters are features of the eaves. The early timber framed double hung windows are arranged as banks of three on the street facade, with their upper lights being six and four paned respectively. The front timber and glazed door and sidelights are also early.
A feature of the design is the flat roofed front verandah, which is extended to form a window hood over the projecting gable windows. It is supported by early? square timber posts which have decorative curved timber brackets. An early capped timber balustrade forms the verandah boundary.
An early decorative feature of the design is the gable infill (shingling and ventilator).
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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