Residence
67 Mt Pleasant Road, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 321571
Belmont Heights Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
B Listed - Regional Significance
The house at 67 Mount Pleasant Road is aesthetically significant at a REGIONAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of both the Late Victorian and Edwardian styles. These qualities include dominant hipped roof form, together with a gable roof that projects towards the street frontage and a recessed (and projecting) return bullnosed verandah predominantly formed under the main roof. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, two tall rendered chimneys with projecting coursing and cappings and terra cotta pots, narrow eaves, timber framed windows, four panelled timber and glazed front door and sidelights, worked timber verandah columns with decorative cast iron lacework brackets and valance, paired worked timber eaves brackets with roundels between, metal roof ridge ornaments, gable bargeboards and the decorative gable infill (stucco work and battening). The exotic trees in the front yard, including the magnolia, contribute to the significance of the place. The house also contributes to the predominantly single storey residential streetscape.
The house at 67 Mount Pleasant Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the G.S. Vince?, nursery man to Queen Victoria, and original owner.
Overall, the house at 67 Mount Pleasant Road is of REGIONAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1910-11, 1920-21, 1921-22, 1923-24, 1924-25, 1927-28.
2. Sand's and McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1957, 1972.
3. Oral information from Captain Chris Gordon, 1998 and Mrs Kathleen Gordon, 1999.
4. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1926-1991, Barwon Water Profis system.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 67 Mount Pleasant Road has visual connections with the T Spoon Eatery building to the north-east and to the Belmont Common to the east. This house is set in a streetscape formed by predominantly single storey homes of varying periods and styles. The house has a large setback to the front and wide side setbacks. These setbacks are shown on the 1926 GWST Plan of Drainage. The site has substantial early trees in the front yard, including a magnolia.
The asymmetrical, single storey weatherboard transitional Late Victorian/Edwardian house is characterised by a dominant hipped roof form, together with a gable roof that projects towards the street frontage and a recessed (and projecting) return bullnosed verandah predominantly formed under the main roof. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron. Two early, tall rendered chimneys with projecting coursing and cappings and terra cotta pots, adorns the roofline. Narrow Late Victorian overhangs are a feature of the eaves. The early timber framed windows on the street facade appear to be double hung. The four panelled timber and glazed front door and sidelights is also early.
A feature of the design is the bullnosed return verandah, which is supported by early? worked timber columns with decorative Late Victorian cast iron lacework brackets and valance between.
Apart from the verandah elements, other early decorative features of the design include the metal ridge ornaments, paired, worked timber eaves brackets with roundels between, gable bargeboards and the gable infill (stucco work and battening).
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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