Residence
164-166 Roslyn Road, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 237367
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Statement of Significance
C LISTED - LOCAL SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 166 Roslyn Road is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant gable roof, together with a minor verandah gable that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, unpainted lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, unpainted brick chimney, wide eaves, timber framed windows arranged as horizontal banks and having large central lights with bowed sashes and flanking narrower double hung windows, front timber and glazed door with sidelight, square timber verandah posts with worked timber brackets and unpainted brick piers with concrete cappings, gable brackets and decorative gable infill (roughcast panelling and timber battening).
The house at 166 Roslyn Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of housing in Belmont during the interwar period.
Overall, the house at 166 Roslyn Road is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1914-15, 1917-18, 1918-19, 1919-20, 1920-21, 1921-22, 1923-24,1925-26, 1926-27, 1931-32, 1935-36, 1940-41, 1948-49, 1955-57, 1957-60.
2. Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, 1961, Barwon Water Profis system.
3. Oral information from a resident at 162 Roslyn Road.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 166 Roslyn Road appears to have been owned by Mrs Helen Wood at least as early as 1914-15. She sold the land to Alex Long who in turn sold it to Misses Mary, Ellen and Margaret Ford in 1920-21, bringing their landholdings to 9 acres. They may have had this house constructed in 1921-22.1 The Misses Ford lived there until the late 1920s, but by 1931-32 it appears that the house was owned and occupied by Margaret Ford only. By 1940-41, she had sold it to R. Daffy of Murray Street, Colac.1 He leased it to a Leslie Jennings, labourer. By 1948-49, Herbert William Cousins, a pattern maker was living at this address. Daffy sold the property to John and Bridget Power in the mid 1950s and they lived there until the land and house was purchased by L.G. and K.M. Angus in 1961. Parts of the outlying land were subdivided at this time.
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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