Residence
88 Mt Pleasant Road, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 233699
Elderslie Estate Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 88 Mount Pleasant Road is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Calfornian Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant gable roof form that traverses the site, together with a verandah gable that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact features include the tiled roof cladding, corbelled red brick chimney, wide eaves, timber framed double hung windows, double timber and glazed front doors, tapered concrete Doric verandah columns,verandah piers and balustrading, terra cotta? finials, gable infill (shingling, brackets and battening) and the brick construction which is unusual for interwar Bungalow design in Belmont. The front rendered brick fence contributes to the significance fo the place. The house also makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey residential streetscape.
The house at 88 Mount Pleasant Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Elderslie Estate Subdivision of 1923.
Overall, the house at 88 Mount Pleasant Road is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1926-27, 1927-28, 1928-29.
2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1957, 1972.
3. Elderslie Estate Subdivision Map, 23 December, 1923, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
4. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1928, Barwon Water Profis system. 5. Pescott, South Barwon 1857-1985, p.46.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 88 Mount Pleasant Road has visual connections with the Belmont Primary School to the south-east. This house is set in a streetscape formed by predominantly single storey homes of varying periods and styles. The house has a typical large setback to the front and narrower side setbacks, with a driveway along the side. These setbacks are shown on the 1928 GWST Plan of Drainage.4 The site is bound at the front by a curved, rendered brick fence with rendered brick piers at equally spaced intervals and is approximately 1200mm high).
The asymmetrical, single storey brick and rendered interwar Californian Bungalow house is by a dominant gable roof form that traverses the site, together with a verandah gable that projects towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in early tiles. An early, corbelled red brick chimney adorns the roof line. Wide overhangs are a feature of the eaves. The early timber framed double hung windows appear to be arranged in pairs. The double timber and glazed front doors also appear to be early.
A feature of the design is the projecting verandah gable. It is supported by tapered concrete Doric columns, which in turn are supported by brick piers with concrete banding and cappings. A solid rendered balustrade forms the verandah boundary.
Apart from the verandah columns, pier and balustrade, early decorative features include the terra cotta? finials, and the gable infill (shingling, brackets and battening). The brick quoining at the corners is also a decorative feature, and the brick construction of the house is unusual for interwar Californian Bungalow design in Belmont.
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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