"Barwon Bank"

'Barwon Bank', erected 1853-55, is an important early Victorian mansion house and one of few documented works in Victoria of the virtually unknown, but accomplished architect, Thomas R. Yabsley. Upon completion in 1856, this comparatively rare example of the colonial regency style mansion in Victoria was considered to be "the finest specimen of architecture in the Western District". John Gregory, a noted Geelong solicitor, occupied the mansion only until 1856; later occupants were associated with Barwon River industries.

References

Historic Buildings Preservation Council File N/6/1. Includes detailed history and illustrations, bibliography and plans.

Brownhill, W. R., The History of Geelong and Corio Bay, Wilke and Co., Melbourne, 1955, pp. 323-324, 363.

Geelong Advertiser, 10th April 1853, 15th January 1855, 20th February, 1855.

National Trust of Australia (Victoria), File No. 2802. 'Research into 'Barwon Bank', Riversdale Road, Marnockvale, (Chilwell), Geelong, May 1978.

Group

Commercial

Category

Bank