Residence
29 Regent Street, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 236446
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Statement of Significance
C - LISTED - LOCAL SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 29 Regent Street is aesthetically significant at at LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant gable roof form, together with a minor gable and flat roofed bay window, and a verandah gable that all project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, rendered brick verandah pillars and piers with concrete cappings, bay window shingling, timber framed double hung windows (including horizontal bank of windows under the verandah), window leadlighting, gable panelling, joinery (including brackets), shingling, and the decorative rendered brick patterns on the verandah balustrade. The house also makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey residential streetscape.
The house at 29 Regent Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the housing developments in Belmont during the interwar period. It is also associated with Eric Lyons, designer and builder.
Overall, the house at 29 Regent Street is of LOCAL significance.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 29 Regent Street has a significant view of the Barwon River aqueduct to the east and is visually connected to the Belmont Fire Station and corner shop to the eastern end of Regent Street, and to the Geelong Masonic Centre and Anglican Church sites. 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.
The single storey weatherboard interwar Californian Bungalow house is characterised by a dominant gable roof form, together with a minor gable and flat roofed bay window, and a verandah gable that all project towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron. Wide overhangs are a feature of the eaves. A tall, rectangular, red brick chimey adorns the western end of the roof top. The original windows have timber frames and are arranged in a bank of three under the verandah, with a central fixed light flanked by double hung windows. To the west, the windows form a bay and are also double hung.
The projecting verandah gable is a dominant element of the front elevation. It is supported by early, squat and rendered square pillars which in turn are supported on partly rendered brick pillars with concrete cappings. The form and arrangement of these verandah pillars and piers are typical design elements of the work of Eric Lyons. The verandah is also characterised by its solid rendered brick balustrade with concrete capping.
Early decorative features of the design include the gable panelling, joinery (including brackets) and shingling, window leadlighting, shingling of the bay window and the patterns and cappings along the verandah balustrade and pillars.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Greater Geelong Outer Areas Heritage Study Volumes 1, 2 & 4
Author: Authentic Heritage Services Pty Ltd
Year: 2000
Grading: C
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