Residence
32 Thomson Street, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 240427
Belmont Heights Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C - LISTED - LOCAL SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 32 Thomson Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the Federation style. These qualities include the recessed, main hipped roof form, together with a gable that projects to the side (north), and a gable and broken-back verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, tall red brick chimney with a terra cotta pot, wide overhangs and exposed rafters, timber framed casement windows with high lights, and the decorative gable infill (shingling, stucco, battening and fretwork). The house also makes a significant contribution to this section of the predominantly Federation and interwar residential streetscape.
The house at 32 Thomson Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It it associated with the Kiddle Estate Subdivision of 1906 and the Belmont Heights Subdivision of 1913.
Overall, the house at 32 Thomson Street is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCES
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1912-13, 1913-14, 1914-15.
2. Sands and McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1957, 1972.
3. Pescott, South Barwon 1857-1985, p.45, 46.
4. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1927, Barwon Water Profis system.
5. Brownhill and Wynd, History of Geelong and Corio Bay With Postscript, p.131, 550.
6. Belmont Heights Estate Subdivision plan, 6 December, 1913, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 32 Thomson Street has a significant view of St Stephen's Anglican Church to the north and to Newtown Hill. The house is set in a predominantly single storey Federation and interwar Bungalow residential streetscape, with some house adapted for other uses. The house has typical front and side setbacks. These setbacks are shown on the 1927 GWST Plan of Drainage. The front is bound by a corrugated iron fence with timber posts, approximately 1800mm high.
The asymmetrical, single storey, weatherboard, Federation styled house is characterised by a recessed, main hipped roof form, together with a gable that projects to the side (north), and a gable and broken-back verandah that project towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron. A tall red brick chimney with a terra cotta pot adorns the roof line. Wide overhangs and exposed rafters are features of the eaves. The early timber framed casement windows are arranged in groups of twos and threes, with high lights above. The windows under the gable projecting towards the street frontage have segmental heads. It is not known whether the front door is early.
Early decorative features of the design include the gable infill (shingling, stucco, battening and fretwork).
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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