Residence
26 George Street, BELMONT VIC 3216 - Property No 227371
Evans Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 26 George Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the recessed, dominant hipped roof form, together with two minor gable roofs and a hipped verandah (extension of main roof) that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, tall brick chimney with a soldier course capping, wide eaves, timber framed windows arranged as horizontal banks of three, slightly hipped window hood, gabled and hipped roof verandah supported by rendered brick pillars with concrete cappings and rendered brick piers also with concrete cappings, solid rendered verandah balustrade with a concrete cappings and decorative banding, window leadlighting and the gable infill (shingling and brackets). The post and wire fence and gate contribute to the significance of the place. The house also makes a significant contribution to the Bungalow streetscape.
The house at 26 George Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Mrs Evans' Subdivision of the 1920s?
Overall, the house at 26 George Street is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1935-36, 1936-37.
2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1958, 1972.
3. Drainage Plans & Inspectors' Reports, 1936, Barwon Water Profis system.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 26 George Street has significant views to South Geelong to the north. This house is set in a single storey streetscape of predominantly timber interwar Bungalows and brick postwar Bungalows. The house has typical front and side setbacks, with a driveway along the side. These setbacks are shown on the 1936 GWST Plan of Drainage. The site is bound at the front by an early post and wire fence and gate, approximately 1200mm high.
The single storey weatherboard interwar Californian Bungalow house is characterised by a recessed, dominant hipped roof form, together with two minor gable roofs and a hipped verandah (extension of main roof) that project towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in lapped galvanised corrugated iron An early tall brick chimney with a soldier course capping adorns the roofline. Wide overhangs are a feature of the eaves. The early timber framed windows are arranged as horizontal banks of three on the street facade, being supported by early timber brackets. A slightly hipped window hood is over one of the window banks.
A feature of the design is the projecting gabled and hipped roof verandah, supported by early rendered brick pillars with concrete cappings, which in turn are supported by rendered brick piers also with concrete cappings. A solid rendered balustrade with a concrete cappings forms the verandah boundary.
Early decorative features of the design include the verandah pier and balustrade banding, window leadlighting and the gable infill (shingling and brackets).
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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