Residence

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

A large exuberant and particularly intact brick Edwardian house designed by the pre-eminent Geelong architects of this period, Laird and Barlow in association with Tombs and Durran in 1902 and probably designed by J.A. Laird. It is architecturally significant regionally and as an important example of this domestic style in Geelong, of the work of its architects, as an intact survivor and probably as influential on the development of this style in Geelong and on the work of other Geelong architects and probably on students of Laird. It demonstrates fine and skilful craftsmanship in its details, such as the tower. It is historically significant regionally as an extraordinary embodiment of the fin de siecle way of life in Geelong of a prosperous family.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence