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Location158 Corio Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 212855 LevelIncl in HO area indiv sig |
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Significant
Previously C Listed - Local Significance
Statement of Significance
The fisherman's cottage at 158 Corio Street, Geelong, has
significance as a reasonably externally intact example of a
rudimentary Victorian Picturesque style. Built in 1885 for John
Blackney, a fisherman, the house may have been extended in c.1900. It
appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street. The fisherman's cottage at 158 Corio Street is architecturally
significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original or early design
qualities of a rudimentary Victorian Picturesque style. These
qualities include the double gable roof form that traverses the site,
together with the rear skillion wing and the concave verandah that
projects towards the Corio Street frontage. Other intact or
appropriate qualities include the single storey height, symmetrical
composition, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised
corrugated steel roof cladding, narrow eaves, central timber framed
doorway and flanking timber framed four paned double hung windows,
timber framed leadlighted window on the Cogans Place elevation, nine
paned timber framed window under the rear skillion, stop chamfered
timber verandah columns with projecting capitals, decorative cast iron
verandah valance, curving gable bargeboards and the turned timber
finials. The fishermen's cottage at 158 Corio Street is historically
significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential
developments in Geelong in the late 19th century. In particular, this
cottage has associations with John Blackney, fisherman and original
owner from 1885.
References
Drainage Plans and Reports, Barwon Water profis system, 1921, 1991. Sands & McDougall Geelong Directory, 1972, Geelong Historical
Records Centre. Sands & McDougall "Invicta" Geelong Directory, 1968.
Geelong Historical Records Centre. Geelong City Council Rate Books 1880 - 1960, Geelong Historical
Records Centre. Geelong Town Plan, 1858, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Residential buildings (private)
Residence