Residence
8 Prospect Avenue, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 236171
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Statement of Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 8 Prospect Avenue is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant hipped roof form, together with a minor hipped roof and flat roofed verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, wide eaves, timber framed double hung windows arranged in horizontal banks of three, double front timber and glazed? doors, flat roofed verandah which extends across to form a narrow window hood, square and rendered brick verandah pillars with concrete cappings, rendered brick piers, solid rendered balustrade with a concrete capping, window leadlighting, exposed brick soldier course bands on the verandah piers and the exposed brick patterning on the verandah balustrade.
The house at 8 Prospect Avenue is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Glendural Estate subdivision of 29 January, 1921, and with Eric Lyons, designer and builder.
Overall, the house at 8 Prospect Avenue is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1938-39, 1939-40.
2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1941, 1958, 1971.
3. Glendural Estate subdivision plan, 29 January, 1921.
4. Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, 1939, Barwon Water Profis system.
5. Interview by Rowe and Huddle with Mr Eric Lyons, retired Geelong designer and builder, 3 March, 1999.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 8 Prospect Avenue has a typical front setback of approximately 5 metres, with smaller side setbacks and a driveway along the side. These setbacks are shown on the 1939 GWST Plan of Drainage.4 A recent timber picket fence forms the front boundary and is approximately 1500mm high.
The asymmetrical, single storey, weatherboard interwar Bungalow house is characterised by a dominant hipped roof form, together with a minor hipped roof and flat roofed verandah that project towards the street frontage. These roof forms appear to be clad in corrugated zincalume. A recent, second storey hipped roof extension is situated at the rear. Wide overhangs are a feature of the eaves. The early timber framed double hung windows are arranged in horizontal banks of three on the street facade. The double front timber and glazed? doors also appear to be early.
A feature of the design is the flat roofed verandah, which extends across to form a narrow window hood. The verandah is supported by early, square and rendered brick pillars with concrete cappings, which in turn are supported by early rendered brick piers. A solid rendered balustrade with a concrete capping forms the verandah boundary.
Early decorative features of the design include the window leadlighting, exposed brick soldier course bands on the verandah piers and the exposed brick patterning on the verandah balustrade.
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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