Residence "Sladen House"

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

'Sladen House' on the Barwon River of Chilwell was erected in 1849-50 for Charles Sladen, a Geelong Solicitor. In 1863 Jacob Pitman, architect, designed extensive additions of dining and drawing rooms, coach house and stables in a Victorian Italianate mode to match the earlier structure erected of squared coursed basalt by local stonemason Grierson. In 1940 the residence was demolished for salvage materials, then re-erected largely to original detail by the RS & S Woolen Mills on the same site, one of the oldest houses surviving in Geelong, has notable associations with Sir Charles Sladen, politician, Victorian Premier, pastoralist and pioneer solonist.

RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES

Geelong Regional Commission Register.

Australian Heritage Commission Register of the National Estate.

REFERENCES

National Trust of Australia (Victoria), File No 802.

Geelong Advertiser - 26th December, 1849, 6th November 1852, 25th May, 1863, 23rd July 1863, 23rd December 1863, 9th January, 1864, 12th January, 1864, 31st March, 1857, tenders called by Shaw and Dowden.

Smith, James (Ed) - The Cyclopedia of Victoria - 3 Volumes, The Cyclopedia Co., Melbourne, 1904, Vol 2, pp 183, 200.

Sutherland, A - Victoria and Its Metropolis, Past and Present, McCarron, Bird & Co, Melbourne, 1904, Vol 2, pp 183, 200.

Brownhill, W. R. - The History of Geelong and Corio Bay, Wilke & Co, Melbourne, 1955, p.75.

Grant, James, "Sladen, Sir Charles (1816-1884)" - Australian Dictionaly of Biography, 6 Volumes, Vol 6, Main, Bede (Ed) Melbourne University Press, 1976 pp. 133-134.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House