Residence
2 Peary Street, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 235337
Belmont Heights Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 2 Peary Street is aesthetically significant at LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the Federation style which include the dominant galvanised corrugated iron hipped and broken backe roof with a projecting minor attic gable on the diagonal of the north-east corner. Other intact qualities include the tall chimney, return verandah under the roof, timber framed casement windows, timber verandah columns, brackets and fretwork, and the window leadlighting. The substantial liquid ambers, native and golden ash trees contribute to the significance of the place. The house also makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey residential, interwar streetscape.
The house at 2 Peary Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Belmont Heights Estate subdivision of 1913. It is also historically significant at a LOCAL level as possibly the earliest house constructed the Belmont Heights Estate.
Overall, the house at 2 Peary Street is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1914-15, 1925-26, 1926-27.
2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1939, 1958, 1971.
3. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1927, Barwon Water Profis system.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 2 Peary Street has significant and substantial liquid amber, native and golden ash trees located within it which form significant urban foci. This house is set in two streetscapes (Peary and Regent Streets) which are both predominantly characterised by single storey brick and timber homes of varying styles (mainly interwar Californian Bungalows of the 1920s in Regent Street) and periods. The house has typical front and side setbacks. These setbacks are shown on the 1927 GWST Plan of Drainage.3 The site is bound at the front by a low timber post and wire fence and scrolled metal gate.The single storey weatherboard Federation styled house is characterised by a dominant galvanised corrugated iron hipped roof with a projecting minor attic gable on the diagonal of the north-east corner. A tall chimney with terra cotta pot adorns the roof top. A return verandah wraps around the corner of the house, under the broken backed roof section of the main hipped roof form. This type of roof arrangement recalls the early Colonial Georgian homesteads of the early 1800s in Australia, whereby the roof acted as a protective measure against the hot sun. The timber framed windows are grouped in banks of threes under the verandah of the front elevation. They appear to be oriented on the diagonal. These casement windows may have leadlighted upper lights.The verandah is supported by early decorative timber columns, with worked timber brackets and a fretwork valance forming the other decorative features of the design.
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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