Residence

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 77 Garden Street, Geelong, has significance as a predominantly intact example of the Edwardian style. Built in 1907 for James Watt, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 77 Garden Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an Edwardian style. These qualities include the steeply pitched gambrel roof form, together with the minor gable and side hipped verandah with the gabled portico that project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding, three multi-corbelled unpainted brick chimneys with terra cotta pots, modest eaves with worked timber brackets above the front verandah, paired timber framed double hung boxed windows with timber window sills supported by worked timber brackets, timber framed doorway with a timber and glazed door and sidelight and highlights, other timber framed double hung windows, turned timber verandah columns, decorative timber fretwork verandah valance and brackets, similarly decorated timber verandah balustrade, flying gable at the front with the curving stuccoed window head, and the timber shingling gable and gambrel infill.

The house at 77 Garden Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong during the Edwardian (c.1890-1915) period. In particular, this house has associations with James Watt, original owner and carpenter of Chilwell from 1907.

Overall, the house at 77 Garden Street is of LOCAL significance

References

References Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system, 1922, 1966. Sands & McDougalls Directory of Geelong, 1972, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

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

Geelong City Council Rate Books (Ormond and Barwon Ward), 1905-1960.

Geelong Town Plan 1858, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence