Residence

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 4 Brown Street, East Geelong, has significance as a reasonably intact example of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. Built in 1926 for R.J. Gunn, this house is in good condition when viewed from the street. The house at 4 Brown Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the gable roof form that traverses the site, together with a verandah gable that projects towards the streets frontage, and minor gables that project to the front and side. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, tiled roof cladding, flat roofed form to the side verandah, unpainted brick chimney with a soldier course capping, wide eaves with exposed timber rafters, projecting bowed window bay under the front verandah, recessed front double doorway under the front verandah, timber framed double hung windows including boxed timber windows, unpainted brick verandah piers with soldier course and concrete cappings above which are lighter coloured brick piers with red concrete bands and lighter red brick soldier course and concrete cappings, tapered and rendered verandah pier buttresses, solid brick verandah balustrades with a concrete cappings, and the decorative gable infill battening and panelling, brackets, and timber shingling. The front manicured cypress shrub, grassed areas and front fence also contribute to the significance of the place.

The house at 4 Brown Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in East Geelong during the interwar 1920s1940s period. In particular, this house has associations with R.J. Gunn, original owner and builder, from 1926. Overall, the house at 4 Brown Street is of LOCAL significance.

References

References Drainage Plans and Reports, 1926, 1949, 1950, 1984, 1986, Barwon Water Profis system, City of Greater Geelong. Geelong City Council Rate Books, Barwon Ward, 192627, Geelong Historical Records Centre. Parish of Corio Map, May 1880, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence