Residence

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 13 Brown Street, East Geelong, has significance as a largely externally intact example of a modest interwar Bungalow style. Built in 1924 for G. Warren, this house is in good/fair condition when viewed from the street. The house at 13 Brown Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a modest interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the broad hipped roof form, together with a minor hipped porch that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, two unpainted brick chimneys with rendered concrete cappings and terra pots, wide eaves with exposed timber rafters, paired square timber porch columns and unpainted brick piers with concrete cappings, solid and curved plain porch valances, timber framed doorway under the porch, projecting corner window bays with skillion roofs and exposed timber rafters, timber framed and double hung windows, and the decorative window leadlighting in the upper sashes. The front garden, timber fence construction and fence height also contribute to the significance of the place.

The house at 13 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 G. Warren, original owner from 1924. Overall, the house at 13 Brown Street is of LOCAL significance.

References

References Drainage Plans and Reports, 1925, 1991, Barwon Water Profis system, City of Greater Geelong. Geelong City Council Rate Books, Barwon Ward, 192226, Geelong Historical Records Centre. Certificate of Title, 1926.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence