Building
44 Belle Vue Road, GOLDEN SQUARE VIC 3555 - Property No 175253
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Statement of Significance
Architecturally, the house is distinguished by its ornate early verandah, potentially its brickwork and its adverse siting, which points to its historical associations and lends it prominence, sited on a minor hill.
Historically, it is also contemporary with the surrounding major gold mining field and provides valuable built components to the historical importance of this part of the Bendigo field.
Its creator and long-term occupier, Robert Lisle, was part of the Golden Square mining fraternity and co-financier of the Methodist Church in the locality.
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Building - Physical Description 1
A double-fronted red brick (painted over) villa, with a hipped- form slate roof and concave-profile verandah. Set side-on to the street and the nearby Poverty Gully, it faces across Lisle's other block, back towards Bendigo town.
It also faces the United Belle Vue Company gold mine site. The house's most unusual attribute is the verandah detailing. Paired posts (Ionic) support miniature entablatures, capitals and intricate fret-sawn arch spandrels which recall other notable buildings such as 50 Church Street, Eaglehawk, Falkland House, Long Gully (Vahland & Getzschmann, 1870) and 12 Bannerman Street, Bendigo, (R A Love, 1871).
Openings have segment-arch heads, with indications of contrasting colours in the voussoirs, and the stuccoed chimneys have relatively slim cornice mouldings, typical of mid, rather than late, Victorian-era details.
Building - Integrity
External - An early picket fence may survive in an altered form at the frontage (tops cut square) and the brickwork has been painted, albeit a 'brick colour.'
Building - Physical Description 2
Landscape - Mature landscape includes' Cupressus torulosa' along the fence line and a large evergreen tree (possibly an' Arbutus unedo') which is contributory.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Bendigo - Eaglehawk & Bendigo Heritage Study
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 1993
Grading: B
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