"Moondara" - residence
57 Seaview Avenue, BARWON HEADS VIC 3227 - Property No 238157
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Statement of Significance
C Listed - Local Significance
Statement of Significance
The house at 57 Seaview Avenue is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. Although relocated and altered, it still demonstrates some original design qualities of a Late Victorian style, together with interwar Bungalow elements that resulted after its removal. These qualities include the steeply pitched gable roof form that traverses the site, and a skillion front verandah with a central entrance gablet. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, c.1925 unpainted brick chimney, c.1925 timber framed double hung windows, gablet shingling and the side gable paneling and battening.
The house at 57 Seaview Avenue is historically significant at a REGIONAL level. The building was the first denominational school in the Barwon Heads region. This site is also historically significant for its associations with the Barwon Heads Estate subdivision of 1891 and the Riverside Estate subdivision of 1920.
The house at 57 Seaview Avenue is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is still recognised by parts of the Barwon Heads community for its association as a school house in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Overall, the house at 57 Seaview Avenue is of LOCAL significance.
References
See Heritage Victoria file no. 605113
Barwon Heads Estate subdivision plan, 30 March, 1891, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Riverside Estate subdivision plan, 27 December, 1920, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
J.Pescott, South Barwon 1857-1985, City of South Barwon, Belmont, 1985, p.160.
Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1925-126, 1926-27, 1933-34, 1943-44, 1958-60.
Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, Barwon Heads Sewerage Authority, 1978, Barwon Water Profis system.
Information Dr Bob Gibson, Barwon Heads Association, 1998.
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"Moondara" - residence - Physical Description 1
Description
The site at 57 Seaview Avenue has visual connections to the substantial Norfolk pine to the south and to other single storey, horizontal weatherboard pitched roof houses of mixed styles and periods. This house has typical front and side setbacks, which are shown on the 1978 BHSA Plan of Drainage. The front is bound by a timber lattice fence, approximately 1500mm high.
The symmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, predominately Victorian styled former school house is characterised by a steeply pitched gable roof form that traverses the site, and a skillion front verandah with a central entrance gablet. A c.1925 unpainted brick chimney adorns the roofline. The c.1925 timber framed double hung interwar Bungalow windows are symmetrically arranged in pairs on the street facade, about a central front door.
A feature of the design is the front verandah with its central gablet. The verandah is supported by recent timber columns with worked timber brackets.
Decorative features that appear to originate from c.1925 include the gablet shingling and the side gable paneling and battening.
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BARWON HEADS BRIDGEVictorian Heritage Register H1848
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HITCHCOCK AVENUE SEWER TRENCHVictorian Heritage Inventory
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Stone Fence & TreesGreater Geelong City
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