Residence
22 Peary Street, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 235361
Belmont Heights Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 22 Peary Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Old English style. These qualities include the steeply pitched gable roof form that traverses the site, together with a minor gable and gabled verandah porch that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the unpainted brick construction, cement roof tiles, multi-corbelled unpainted brick chimney, modest eaves, timber framed double hung windows arranged as a pair and horizontal bank of three on the street facade, window hoods, pointed verandah door opening with a frame of lighter brick coursing and voussoirs, corbelled brick gable ends and gable ventilators. The garden path and front fence 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 22 Peary Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Belmont Heights Estate subdivision of 1913, and with Eric Lyons, local Geelong builder.
Overall, the house at 22 Peary Street is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Belmont Heights Estate subdivision plan, 6 December, 1913, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
2. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1939-40, 1940-41, 1943-44, 1947-48, 1955-57, 1957-60.
3. Interview by Rowe and Huddle with Mr Eric Lyons, 3 March, 1999.
4. Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, 1941, Barwon Water Profis system.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 22 Peary Street is visually connected to significant and substantial liquid amber, native and golden ash trees along the northern end of Peary Street. This house is set in a streetscape formed by single storey brick and timber homes of varying styles and periods. There are some interwar Bungalow houses dotted throughout. The house has a substantial front setback, but typical side setbacks with a driveway along the side. These setbacks are shown on the 1941 GWST Plan of Drainage. The front garden features an early concrete pedestrian path, while the site is bound by an early solid brick fence and diamond pattern steel gate, which are approximately 700mm high.
The single storey, asymmetrical, unpainted brick, interwar Old English styled house is characterised by a steeply pitched gable roof form that traverses the site, together with a minor gable and gabled verandah porch that project towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in early cement tiles. An early, multi-corbelled brick chimney adorns the roofline. Modest overhangs are a feature of the eaves. The early timber framed double hung windows are arranged as a pair and horizontal bank of three on the street facade, and they have window hoods above.
A feature of the design is the gabled verandah porch. It is characterised by a pointed arch door opening with a frame of lighter brick coursing and voussoirs.
Early decorative features of the design include the corbelled brick gable ends and gable ventilators.
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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