Residence
3 Regent Street, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 236416
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
Thehouse at 3 Regent Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. Although the subfloor space has been altered into a garage with the addition of a tilt-a-door, the house still demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the rear gable thattraverses the site, together with a major gable and verandah gable that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, corbelled brick chimney with a terra cotta pot, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed windows arranged in horizontal banks and having large fixed central lights with two double hung windows at the sides, front doorway and sidelight, face brick verandah piers, window leadlighting and the decorative gable infill (pannelling and battening.)
The house at3 Regent Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the McCauley Estate subdivision of 19 April, 1913.
Overall, the house at 3 Regent Street is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCES
1. Shire of South Barown Rate Books, 1927-28.
2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1958, 1971
3. McCauley Estate Subdivision plan, 19 April, 1913, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
4. Drainage Plans & Inspectors; Reports, 1927, Barown Water Profis system.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 3 Regent Street has visual connections with the park opposite and with the Belmont Common to the east. This house is visually connected to other single storey houses in this section of Regent Street. It has typical front and side setbacks, with a driveway at the front. These setbacks are shown on the 1927 GWST Plan of Drainage.4
The asymmetrical, single storey, weatherboard , interwar Californian Bungalow house is characterised by a rear gable that traverses the site, together with a major gable and verandah gable that project towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron? An early corbelled brick chimney with a terra cotta pot adorns the roofline. Wide overhangs and exposed rafters are features of the eaves. The early timber framed windows are arranged in horizontal banks and have a large fixed central light with two double hung windows at the sides. The front doorway and sidelight are also original.
A feature of the design is the projecting verandah gable. It is supported by recent and inappropriate, thin steel rods which in turn are supported by early? face brick piers. A recent timber balustrade forms the verandah boundary.
The subfloor space forms a garage, with a recent tilt-a-door.
Early decorative features of the design include the window leadlighting and the gable infill (panelling and battening).
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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