Residence (rear of property)

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 196 Bellerine Street, Geelong, has significance as a relatively intact example of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. Built in c.1918, this house replaced an earlier timber dwelling constructed on this site in 1854. The house at 196 Bellerine Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the simple broad gable roof form clad in galvanised corrugated iron and the front recessed verandah supported by paired concrete columns on brick piers with concrete cappings. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, narrow eaves at the sides and wide front gable eaves supported by timber brackets, triple-lighted double hung boxed windows at the front supported by small timber brackets, other timber framed windows, flat hood over the front windows, front timber framed doorway with sidelight, diamond window leadlighting, verandah shingling and the decorative gable infill (battening and panelling). The house as particular architectural significance for the surviving weatherboard and gabled rear section that dates from c.1854, and the surviving bluestone remains under the rear of the Bungalow. The house at 196 Bellerine Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong in the early 1850s, and then in the interwar (c.1918-40s) period. Considerable historical significance is defined by the surviving c.1854 section, which has associations with George Wright, probable original owner from c.1854 until 1860. The house also has associations with Patrick O'Halloran, probable original owner of the Bungalow from c.1918, and later with the Inturissi family who hosted many immigrant families from the late 1950s. The rear c.1854 section of the house at 196 Bellerine Street is scientifically significant at a LOCAL level. The extant galvanised iron Morewood and Rogers roof tiles represent a notable form of construction specific to the 1850s, and now unusual in Geelong. Overall, the house at 196 Bellerine Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House