Residence
13 Thomas Street, BELMONT VIC 3216 - Property No 240354
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Statement of Significance
C LISTED - LOCAL SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 13 Thomas Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the lapped, galvanised corrugated iron gable roof forms. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed windows arranged in horizontal banks having central fixed lights with double hung windows at the sides, window hood and the decorative gable infill (panelling and battening). The flat timber picket fence and gate contribute to the significance of the place.
The house at 13 Thomas Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with T.M. Burke's subdivision of the 1920s. It is also significant at as a house constructed by the War Service Homes Commission, a Commonwealth Government scheme of the 1920s to assist low income earners.
Overall, the house at 13 Thomas Street is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1929-30, 1930-31, 1931-32, 1932-33.
2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1957, 1972.
3. P. Cuffley, Australian Houses of the Twenties & Thirties, pp.15-16.
4. Drainage Plans, Inspectors' Reports and Certificate of Title,1931, 1954, Barwon Water Profis system.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The asymmetrical, single storey weatherboard interwar Californian Bungalow house is characterised by lapped, galvanised corrugated iron gable roof forms. Wide overhangs and exposed rafters are features of the eaves. The early timber framed windows are arranged in horizontal banks and have a central fixed light with double hung windows at the sides. A window hood is over the windows under the projecting gable.
Early decorative features of the design include the gable infill (panelling and battening).
An appropriate, flat timber picket fence, approximately 1300mm high, forms the front boundary.
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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