Residence
103 Mt Pleasant Road, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 233721
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 103 Mount Pleasant Road is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. Although altered, it still demonstrates some design qualities of the Victorian style. These qualities include the recessed hipped roof form, together with a minor hipped roof that projects towards the street frontage and sides. Other intact qualities include the stone and timber construction, slate roof tiles, galvanised corrugated iron verandah roof cladding, rendered brick chimneys, narrow eaves and the form of the verandah.
The house at 103 Mount Pleasant Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with early farming developments in Belmont in the nineteenth century, and notably as a vineyard. It is also associated with Morris Jacobs, original and long time owner and Geelong draper. The house and surrounding land has associations with the Jacobs Estate subdivision of c.1925, when major portions of outlying land of Jacobs's property were subdivided and sold as suburban allotments.
Overall, the house at 103 Mount Pleasant Road is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1873-75, 1884-85, 1886-87, 1890-91, 1895-96, 1899-1900, 1907-08, 1921-22, 1924-25, 1940-41, 1948-49, 1947-48, 1955-57, 1958-60.
2. Geelong Advertiser, 16 December, 1870.
3. Drainage Plans and Inspectors Reports, and also Certificate of Title, 1952-1955, Barwon Water Profis sytem.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The house at 103 Mount Pleasant Road is situated on a substantial allotment, with typical front and side setbacks, and a driveway along the side. These setbacks are shown on the 1955 GWST Plan of Drainage. The site also accommodates a rear outbuilding, while the side (east) boundary is unusual in that a neighbouring brick building projects into the site, with the boundary formed around it. A recent, inappropriate timber paling fence, approximately 1800mm high, forms the front boundary.
The single storey, asymmetrical, stone and timber Victorian house is characterised by a recessed hipped roof form, together with a minor hipped roof and concave return verandah that projects towards the street frontage and sides. The major roof forms are clad in early slate tiles, with the verandah clad in early galvanised corrugated iron. Three early, rendered brick chimneys adorn the roofline. Narrow overhangs are a feature of the eaves.
The return verandah at the front and sides has been substantially altered with highly inappropriate c.1970s brick and glass infill. A recent parapetted entrance portico is a focus on the front facade
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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