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8 Stephens Parade, BARWON HEADS VIC 3227 - Property No 239220
Golf Links Heritage Area HO1650
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Statement of Significance
B Listed - Regional Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The house known as Fairways at 8-10 Stephens Parade is aesthetically significant at a REGIONAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant hipped roof form, together with a minor ventilator gable that projects towards the north. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, brick chimney, wide eaves with exposed rafters, timber framed windows, north verandah under the projection of the main hipped roof supported by paired timber posts, vertical timber verandah balustrade, and the gable ventilator. The house also makes a significant contribution to the interwar Bungalow character of the Golf Links precinct.
The house known as the Fairways at 8-10 Stephens Parade is historically significant at a REGIONAL level. It is associated with the redevelopment of the Barwon Heads Golf Course from c1919, the Golf Links/Golf Lands subdivision of c1920 and the development of the Great Ocean Road.
Overall the house known as Fairways at 8-10 Stephens Parade is of REGIONAL significance.
REFERENCES:
J Pescott, South Barwon 1857-1985 South Barwon City Council, Belmont, 1985, p 157.
Barwon Heads Golf Links Subdivision plan, c1920-21, Geelong Historical Records centre.
Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1922-23, 1923-24, 1927-28, 1928-29, 1931-32, 1935, 1941-42, 1944-45, 1958-59.
'Great Ocean Road History Notes', complied by Peter Alsop, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
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Residence - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION:
The house known as the Fairways at 8-10 Stephens Parade is set on a substantial allotment and has wide north and side setbacks. The house has uninterrupted visual connection with the Barwon Heads Golf Club and the Barwon Heads Golf Clubhouse to the north and north-west. The north section of the block is bounded by a post and rail fence?, approximately 120mm high. There are at least 5 early and substantial cypress trees immediately north of the site, on the southern fringe of the golf course.
The single storey, symmetrical horizontal weatherboard interwar Bungalow is characterized by a dominant hipped roof for, together with a minor ventilator gable that projects towards the north. These forms appear to be clad in corrugated zincalume. An early brick chimney adorns the roofline. Wide overhangs and exposed rafters are features of the eaves. The windows are timber framed.
A feature of the design id the lengthy verandah on the north facade, formed under the protection of the main hipped roof. It is supported by early paired, square timber posts. A vertical timber? Balustrade forms the verandah boundary.
Another early decorative feature of the design is the gable ventilator in the minor gable albeit now constructed in timber (originally galvanized steel).
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BARWON HEADS GOLF CLUB CLUBHOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H2258
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ResidenceGreater Geelong City
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ResidenceGreater Geelong City
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