Residence

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 4 Lonsdale Street, South Geelong, has significance as a reasonably externally intact example of the Late Victorian Picturesque style. Built between 1893 and 1896 for Thomas Green, a gentleman of Chilwell, this house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 4 Lonsdale Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian Picturesque style. These qualities include the double gable roof form that traverses the site, together with the minor gable and convex verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding overpainted red, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, two rendered brick chimneys with incised panels and multi-corbelled tops, narrow eaves with paired timber brackets and decorative panels, timber framed double hung tripartite window, timber framed double hung windows, timber framed doorway with sidelights and highlights, crafted timber bargeboards on the front gable, turned timber finials, and the timber verandah columns with projecting capitals. The house at 4 Lonsdale Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in South Geelong in the late 19th century. In particular, this house associations with Thomas Green, original owner and a gentleman of Chilwell, from 1893-96, and with subsequent Green family members from 1910 until 1920.

Overall, the house at 4 Lonsdale Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence