Residence
26 Mt Pleasant Road, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 233600
Kardinia Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
B Listed - Regional Significance
The house at 26 Mount Pleasant Road is aesthetically significant at aLOCAL level. It demonstrates some original design qualities of the Late Victorian Italianate style. These qualities include the recessed hipped roof form, together with a bay window and concave verandah (with a parapetted entrance portico) that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, face brick chimneys, elaborate timber casement windows with high lights, worked eaves brackets, and verandah posts, fretwork and valance. The house also makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey Edwardian and interwar Californian Bungalow streetscape.
The house at 26 Mount Pleasant Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the subdivision of part of Alexander Thomson's "Kardinia" farm into the Kardinia Extended Estate, Section 1.
Overall, the house at 26 Mount Pleasant Road is of REGIONAL significance.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 26 Mount Pleasant Road has visual connections with the recent flowering gum tree-lined streetscape and to the Belmont Common to the east. This house is set in a streetscape formed by predominantly Edwardian and interwar Bungalow single storey homes. This house is similar in type and materials with others visually connected to it. The house has a typical setback to the front and typical side setbacks. These setbacks are shown on the 1926 GWST Plan of Drainage. The site is bound at the front by a recent aluminimum palisade and timber post fence, approximately 1300mm high.
The elaborate, single storey, double fronted asymmetrical weatherboard Late Victorian Italianate house is characterised by the recessed hipped roof form, together with a bay window and concave verandah (with a parapetted entrance portico) that project towards the street frontage. These roof forms appear to be clad in galvanised corrugated iron. Red brick chimneys with substantial rendered caps dominate the roof top. Early timber casement windows with highlights on the front facade have early moulded architraves, with the windows at the front on the west forming the projecting bay.
The house is also characterised by the decorative verandah, with its parapetted projecting entry portico. The verandah is supported by early? worked timber posts which are adorned with timber fretwork brackets and a timber valance.
Early decorative features include the worked timber eaves brackets, window frames, and the verandah fretwork and valance.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - City of Greater Geelong Belmont Heritage Reports
Author: Dr David Rowe
Year: 2007
Grading: B
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