Residence
26 Regent Street, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 236444
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Statement of Significance
C - LISTED - LOCAL SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 26 Regent Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the postwar Old English style which include the picturesque arrangement of gable roof forms, with a dominant traversing gable and two minor gables projecting perpendicular from it. Other intact qualities include the prominent, stepped rectangular chimney, verandah porch under the secondary gable, brick corbelling at the gable ends, brick patterning on the walls and chimney, and the timber framed windows (including the horizontal window fronting the street and the windows which wrap around the south-east corner of the house). The front garden and fence contribute to the significance of the place. The house also makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey residential streetscape.
The house at 26 Regent Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the residential building developments in Belmont immediately after World War Two. It is also associated with the local builder, Eric Lyons.
Overall, the house at 26 Regent Street is a LOCAL significance.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 26 Regent Street has a significant view of the Barwon River aqueduct to east and is visually connected to the Belmont Fire Station and corner shop to the eastern end of Regent Street, the Geelong Masonic Centre site to the south and the Anglican Church to the north-west.. The house is set in a predominantly single storey residential streetscape, denoted by brick and timber houses with pitched roofs of different styles and periods. The house has typical front and side setbacks, with a driveway along the side and early timber gates with rectangular openings. These setbacks are shown on the 1952 GWST Plan of Drainage.3 The site may have its original garden layout, and the appropriate, low, brick pillar and square top timber picket fence (approximately 1200mm high) forms the front boundary.
The single storey, face brick postwar Old English styled house is characterised by a picturesque arrangment of steeply pitched and tiled gable roof forms. The main gable traverses the site but it is the two minor gables which project perpendicular to this that are a feature of the front asymmetrical elevation. A tall, wide and stepped brick chimney is a dominant feature of the front facade. The horizontally proportioned window at the front has original timber frames with a central fixed light flanked by double hung windows. A window hood is located above. There are also windows that wrap around the south-east corner which are a typical feature of the interwar and postwar Old English style.
The verandah porch, formed under the roof of the secondary gable, has an arched opening facing the street.
Early decorative features of the design are the brick corbelling on the gable ends and the brick patterning on the gable walls.
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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