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'Lakeside', 64 Coussens Road, AVON PLAINS

Location

64 Coussens Road AVON PLAINS, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

"Lakeside", 64 Coussens Road, Avon Plains, has significance as a highly intact example of the interwar Bungalow style and for its substantial landscaped garden setting beside the banks of Hollands Lake. Built in c.1925 for Archibald Holland, well-known in the district for his planting of native trees, the house appears to be in good condition, apart from some deteriorating brickwork and mortar joints possibly caused by rising damp.

"Lakeside" at Avon Plains is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates many outstanding original design qualities of an interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the broad gable roof form that traverses the site, together with the minor central gable that projects towards the front, imposing round-arched brick entrance portico (forming a balcony above) that projects at the side, and the encircling shallow hipped verandahs. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the predominantly single storey height (including attic), face brick wall construction, tiled roof cladding, timber framed double hung windows arranged in projecting bowed bays, unpainted brick chimneys with cement rendered tops and cappings and terra cotta pots, broad eaves with exposed timber rafters, timber framed and leadlight doors (with leadlight highlight) set within an incised opening having a segmentally arched head constructed of a double course of clinker brick voussoirs, broad tapered brick verandah columns with projecting concrete cappings, clinker brick verandahs piers with concrete cappings, stepped, solid brick verandah balustrades featuring clinker brick soldier coursing, terrazzo verandah floor with the entrance featuring the date "1925" (suggesting the year the house was constructed) and a square motif with a map of Australia bears the initials "A.H." (after Archibald Holland, original owner), clinker brick stringcoursing, leadlight portal window, skillion attic dormer, and the decorative gable infill (timber shingling, brackets and ventilators). The surrounding landscape of mature exotic and native trees, gravelled drive, face brick boundary fence with stepped piers and the uninterrupted views to the Sugar Gums and Hollands Lake also contribute to the significance of the place.

"Lakeside" at Avon Plains is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in the district during the early 20th century. In particular, this house has associations with Archibald Holland from c.1925. Holland was well-known for his planting of native trees in the area and was the son of an early selector in the district.

Overall, "Lakeside" at Avon Plains is of LOCAL significance

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence