Residence
13 Wimmera Street, BELMONT VIC 3216 - Property No 242207
Wimmera Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 13 Wimmera Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Functionalist style. These qualities include the emphasis on the horizontal in the flat roof and parapet, brick bands and banks of early timber framed double hung windows. Other intact qualities include the curved corners, simple geometry, large glazed areas and light brick colour providing a radical, streamlined effect.
The house at 13 Wimmera Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Sutton Estate subdivision of 4 February, 1922.
Overall, the house at 13 Wimmera Street is of LOCAL significance.
REFERENCE
1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1940-41, 1941-42, 1942-43.
2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1956, 1971.
3. Sutton Estate subdivision plan, 4 February, 1922, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
4. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1941, Barwon Water Profis system.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
The site at 13 Wimmera Street has visual connections with a substantial Norfolk pine tree to the east. The house is set in a streetscape of predominantly single storey interwar Californian Bungalow houses mainly constructed in timber with corrugated iron gable roofs. The house has typical front and side setbacks. These setbacks are shown on the 1941 GWST Plan of Drainage. The front is bound by a flat timber picket fence (of interwar design), approximately 1300mm high.
The asymmetrical, single storey, brick veneer interwar Functionalist house is characterised by an emphasis of the horizontal in the flat roof and parapet, brick bands and banks of early timber framed double hung windows. Curved corners are also a striking feature, especially to the north-west, where a bank of windows wraps around the corner. The simple geometry, large glazed areas and light brick colour provides a streamlined effect, typical of interwar Functional design. An aim of Functionalism was for a radical, progressive architectural image which has been developed in the design of this house.
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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