Office

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 9 Fenwick Street has significance as a reasonably intact example of the Late Victorian Picturesque style. Built in 1905 for Thomas Peters, retired timber merchant, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 9 Fenwick Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian Picturesque style. These qualities include the recessed gable roof form that traverses the site, together with the minor gable and bullnosed verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding, asymmetrical composition, single storey height, two unpainted red brick chimneys with cream brick corbelling, narrow eaves with paired timber brackets and diamond panels, timber framed double hung tripartite window on the projecting gable, timber framed double hung windows under the verandah, timber framed doorway, verandah columns, verandah valances, decorative timber bargeboards and the timber finial on the projecting gable.

The house at 9 Fenwick Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular, this house is associated with original owner, Thomas Peters, retired timber merchant, from 1905. The house has associations with the Peters family until 1972.

Overall, the house at 9 Fenwick Street is of LOCAL significance.

Drainage Plans and Reports, Barwon Water profis system, 1917, 1974.

Sands & McDougall Geelong Directory 1972, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Sands & McDougall "Invicta" Geelong Directory 1968, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Geelong City Council Rate Books (Kardinia Ward) 1861-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Geelong Town Plan 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Removed from City Fringe Heritage Area (HO1639)

Group

Commercial

Category

Office building