Residence

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

50 Clarke Street This artisans cottage of the 1850s or earlier has regional historical significance as an early example of workers housing and originally was the home of Ellis Roberts, tailor. This was a trade of particular importance in colonial Newtown. Later, in the 1880s, the cottage was associated with another Newtown artisan, Thomas Thorne, saddler. This trade was important in the early history of transport in Geelong when carriages, buggies and other horse drawn vehicles were common. It has architectural significance to Newtown as a particularly intact early cottage illustrating its development with various additions and alterations clearly visible. It also retains, apparently intact, its cottage vegetable and flower garden context, rare surviving evidence of the early settlement pattern of Newtown.

RECOMMENDATIONS

Exisitng Listing's - None

Recommendations - RNE LPS Place

REFERENCES

Newtown Rate Book 1859-60, North Ward, No's 1678 & 1679.

Glady, Seaton - Model Borough, City of Newtown, 1983, pp. 92-93.& p 98

Newtown Rate Book 1962 No's 1590 & 1591.

Ibid - 1868-69 - No's 146 & 47

Ibid - 1891-73 - No's 146 & 147

Ibid - 1878-79 - No's 146 & 47 - 1885-86 No's 146 & 147

Newtown Rate Book 1887-88 No 202 (Susan may have been Thomas's wife, widow or daughter).

Ibid - 1888-89 - No 202.

Ibid - 1917-18 - No 356

Ibid 1919-20 - No 366

Ibid - 1925 - No 324

Ibid - 1935 - No 335

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House