Residence
22 Mitchell Street, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 233115
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 22 Mitchell Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates in a simple manner, original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant gable roof that traverses the site and a verandah gable that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, lapped galvanised corrugated iron, red brick chimney, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed double hung windows arranged in pairs with upper sashes being four paned, front timber and glazed door, plain timber verandah posts and slender, painted brick piers. The house also makes a significant contribution to the single storey, predominatly postwar bungalow residential streetscape.
The house at 22 Mitchell street is historically signifciant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with theLongview Estate subdivsion of 19 March, 1927. It is also historically significant for its associations with the State Savings Bank's finance, design and construction scheme of the 1920's.
Overall, the house of 22 Mitchell Street is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCES
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1927-28, 1928-29, 1929-30.
2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1957, 1972.
3. Longview Estate subdivision plan, 19 March, 1927, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
4. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1929, Barwon Water Profis system.
5. P. Cuffley, Australian Houses of the Twenties and Thirties, pp.16-17.
6. D. Rowe, 'Building a National Image: The Architecture of John Smith Murdoch, Australia's First Commonwealth Government Architect', PhD (Architecture) Thesis, Deakin University, 1997.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 22 Mitchell Street has visual connections with the tree-lined streetscape, the park to the west and Breakwater to the east. This house is also visually connected to the single storey residential streetscape of predominantly brick and tiled postwar houses. This house has typical front and side setbacks, with a driveway along the side. These setbacks are shown on the 1929 GWST Plan of Drainage.
The simple, asymmetrical, single storey weatherboard interwar Californian Bungalow house is characterised by a dominant gable roof form that traverses the site and a verandah gable that projects towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in lapped, galvanised corrugated iron. An early red brick chimney adorns the roofline. Wide overhangs and exposed rafters are features of the eaves. The early timber framed double hung windows are arranged in pairs and the upper sashes are four-paned. The front timber and glazed door also appears to be early.
A feature of the design is the projecting verandah gble, supported by early? plain timber posts which in turn are supported by early, slender, painted brick piers.
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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