Residence
39 Mt Pleasant Road, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 233617
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 39 Mount Pleasant Road is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant gambrel roof form that traverses the site, together with a minor gable and flat roofed verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, worked timber verandah posts and square shingled piers, capped timber verandah balustrade, timber framed double hung windows, flat window hoods which are narrow extensions of the verandah, window and window hood brackets, window leadlighting, wide eaves overhangs with exposed rafters, tall brick chimneys and terra cotta pots, and the decorative gable infill. The house also makes a significant contribution to the Edwardian and interwar Californian Bungalow streetscape.
The house at 39 Mount Pleasant Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated withlocal Geelong builder and carpenter, Robert Phillips, who built and resided in this house.
Overall, the house at 39 Mount Pleasant Road is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1923-24, 1924-25, 1925-26, 1926-27, 1927-28.
2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1957, 1972.
3. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1927, Barwon Water Profis system.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 39 Mount Pleasant Road has visual connections with the recent flowering gum tree-lined streetscape, to the Belmont Common to the east and to the Prendegast shop to the north-west. This house is set in a streetscape formed by predominantly Edwardian and interwar Bungalow single storey homes. The house has typical front and side setbacks and a driveway along the side. These setbacks are shown on the 1927 GWST Plan of Drainage. An inappropriate timber paling fence (approximately 2000mm high) forms the front boundary.
The single storey, asymmetrical weatherboard interwar Californian Bungalow house is characterised by a dominant gambrel roof form that traverses the site, together with a minor gable and flat roofed verandah that project towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in corrugated zincalume?. Three tall red brick chimneys (two with terra cotta pots) adorn the roofline. Wide overhangs and exposed rafters are features of the eaves. Early timber framed double hung windows, in a bank of two and three respectively, are located on the street facade. The front door also appears to be original, possibly with a sidelight.
A feature of the design is the central, flat roofed verandah, whereby its roof extends in narrow wings to the east and west to form window hoods. The verandah is supported by worked timber posts arranged in threes, which in turn are supported by square shingled piers with a capped timber balustrade between.
Early decorative features of the design include the worked timber window and window hood brackets, window leadlighting and the gable infill (including the brackets and shingling).
The dormer roof and windows may be a more recent addition.
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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KARDINIA HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0337
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"Barwon Grange" house including interiorGreater Geelong City H1102
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Albion Woollen & Worsted Mills (former) FactoryGreater Geelong City
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