Units - Mason House

Previously C Listed - Local Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

STREETSCAPE: Part of a small group of early houses (26-30) which adjoins mainly Edwardian era villas.

Historically connected with Peter Mason, one of Geelong's early landholders and hotelkeepers. It is of a housing type from Geelong's major residential building phase in the 1850's and represents the concentration of these houses which once existed in the northern part of the town as an important residential precinct until the close of last century.

Architecturally, rare among the 1850's cottages surviving in Geelong, being of masonry rather than timber. Architecturally, typical or early houses, as demonstrated by it's roof form and on-street siting.

REFERENCES:

1. RB1857-8, 626 (unfinished)

2. RB1920, 574 (five rooms)

3. RB1859-60, 609 RB1865-6, 499 RB1881, 475

4. RB1920, 574 RB1910, 580

5. RB1865-6, 499 RB1870-1, 463 VB1874, 467 VB1890, 514 RB1910, 510

6. INV. Vol 7 pp85, 124 Vol 8, pp66. 111, 136, 147 Vol 9 pp67, 99

7. INV. 12-80 p117.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Flat