Residence
49 Mt Pleasant Road, BELMONT VIC 3216 - Property No 233627
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 49 Mount Pleasant Road is aesthetially significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the Edwardian style. These qualities include the dominant hipped roof form, together with a gable roof that projects towards the street frontage and a recessed return verandah formed under the main roof. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, two tall red brick chimneys with rendered banding and terra cotta pots, wide eaves, timber framed double hung windows, timber verandah posts and timber fretwork? valance, worked timber brackets supporting the window hood under the gable, window leadlighting, gable brackets and the gable infill (stucco work, battening and brackets). The house also makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey Edwardian and interwar Californian Bungalow streetscape.
The site at 49 Mount Pleasant Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with one of the earliest landholders in Belmont, J. Herd, who appears to have owned this land until the 1890s.
Overall, the house and site at 49 Mount Pleasant Road are of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1906-07, 1907-12, 1912-13, 1913-14, 1914-22, 1922-28.
2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1957, 1972.
3. Kardinia Extended Estate Subdivision plan, 24 October, 1891, B5/100, Geelong Historical RecordsCentre.
4. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1928, Barwon Water Profis system.
5. Pescott, South Barwon 1857-1985
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 49 Mount Pleasant Road has visual connections with the recent flowering gum tree-lined streetscape, to the Belmont Common to the east, Prendegast shop to the north and the Belmont Primary School to the 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 1926 GWST Plan of Drainage. An inappropriate timber fence (approximately 2000mm high) forms the front boundary.
The single storey, asymmetrical weatherboard Edwardian styled house is characterised by a dominant hipped roof form, together with a gable roof that projects towards the street frontage and a recessed return verandah formed under the main roof. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron. Two tall red brick chimneys with rendered banding and terra cotta pots adorn the roof line. Wide overhangs are a feature of the eaves. The early timber framed double hung windows are arranged in banks of three along the street facade.
A feature of the design is the return verandah. It appears to be supported by early timber posts and has an eary decorative timber fretwork? valance.
Apart from the valance, other decorative features of the design are the worked timber brackets supporting the window hood under the gable, window leadlighting, gable brackets and gable infill (stucco work, battening and brackets).
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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