Anglican Vicarage

The former All Saints Anglican Vicarage at 13-15 Talbot Street Newtown is significant as a fine example of a mid-Victorian dwelling constructed as accommodation for the vicar of All Saints Church located opposite.  It comprises a double- storey, double-fronted, symmetrical four-square, mid-Victorian house, with a slate hip roof . Bricks are brown with cream facings and there are Bateshead limestone sills, on a bluestone plinth. Ground floor front windows are pairs. The timber concave skillion verandah has a timber transom with a cast iron lace valence . Posts are Doric and roof-ends are bold scrolled fretwork. The entire Mercer Street front is rendered and ruled in courses.

The timber stables at the rear, featuring Regency weatherboards are also of significance.

The former All Saints Anglican Vicarage at 13-15 Talbot Street, Newtown, is of historical cultural heritage significance to the City of Greater Geelong for its historical and aesthetic significance.

Constructed in 1872 the former All Saints Vicarage has regional historical significance as part of the important Geelong Anglican Church complex. All Saints Church, built ten years earlier from the designs of the Geelong architect, Joseph Loewe Shaw, and its 1870s vicarage, were both erected on excellent elevated sites, indicating the social importance of the Anglican Church in colonial Geelong and Newtown. (Criterion A)

It has regional architectural significance as a fine intact mid-Victorian building. (Criterion D)

Its use of Bateshead limestone in the sills and the bold scrolled fretwork panels are of particular interest. (Criterion E)