"Lezayre"
126 Roslyn Road, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 237302
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Statement of Significance
C LISTED - LOCAL SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 126 Roslyn Road is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the central hipped roof with hipped and gabled roof forms that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, rendered brick chimney with a projecting capping, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed double hung windows arranged as projecting flat roofed bays, timber framed diamond shaped window , corner verandah porch with a gablet and skillion roof and supported by paired round concrete Doric columns face brick piers with concrete cappings, solid face brick balustrades with concrete cappings, bay window shingling and the decorative gable infill (panelling and battening).
The house at 126 Roslyn Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Jacobs Estate subdivision of c.1925.
Overall, the house at 126 Roslyn Road is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1928-29, 1929-30, 1932-33, 1934-35, 1936-37, 1938-39.
2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1957, 1972.
3. Jacobs Estate subdivision plan, c.1925, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
4. Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, 1949, Barwon Water Profis system.
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"Lezayre" - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 126 Roslyn Road has significant views to the Barrabool Hills to the west and the Leopold hill to the east. This house is visually connected to other single storey, timber and brick interwar and postwar houses along the tree-lined streetscape. Although located on a corner allotment, this house has typical front and side setbacks, as shown on the 1949 GWST Plan of Drainage.4 The front is bound by a timber picket fence, approximately 1200 high.
The asymmetrical, single storey weatherboard interwar Bungalow house is characterised by a central hipped roof with hipped and gabled roof forms that project towards the street frontage. The tile roof cladding appears to be a more recent addition. An early rendered brick chimney with a projecting capping adorns the roofline. Wide overhangs and exposed rafters are features of the eaves. The early timber framed double hung windows are arranged as projecting flat roofed bays on the Roslyn Road and Angus Street frontages. An early timber framed diamond shaped window is situated on the verandah porch.
A feature of the design is the corner verandah porch, with a gablet and skillion roof. It is supported by early, paired round concrete Doric columns which in turn are supported by face brick piers with concrete cappings. Solid face brick balustrades with concrete cappings form the verandah porch boundaries.
Apart from the verandah elements, early decorative features of the design include the bay window shingling 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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