Shop & Residence

Statement of Cultural Significance

The shop and house at 2-4 Maud Street, Geelong, has significance as reasonably intact examples of late 19th century and interwar design. The shop building was constructed between 1893 and 1896 for Jacob Cairns, a plumber of Newtown. The interwar Californian Bungalow styled house was built in 1928, when the property was owned by Sarah and George Clarke.

The shop and house at 2-4 Maud Street are architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. The shop building demonstrates original design qualities of the late 1890s period. These qualities include the stepped and curvilinear parapet with a simple gable roof form behind, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding (painted red) and the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, narrow eaves, and the two-bayed front facade divided by three plain pilasters with narrow-moulded capitals, timber framed, triple-lighted shopfront, and the narrow-bayed timber framed doorway with transom window above.

The house demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the broad gable roof form, together with a recessed corner verandah supported by paired twisted columns on an unpainted brick pier having a concrete capping. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding (painted red), horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, two unpainted red brick chimneys, projecting bay of timber framed windows on the front facade having a flat hood supported by timber brackets, other timber framed windows, curved gable bargeboards, timber shingling above the verandah, and the decorative gable infill (battening and panelling).

The shop and house at 2-4 Maud Street are historically significant at a LOCAL level. The shop is associated with commercial developments in Geelong in the 1890s, and has particularly associations with Jacob Cairns, plumber and original owner between 1893 and 1896. The house (together with the shop) have associations with Sarah and George Clarke from 1928, when the house was constructed.

Overall, the shop and house at 2-4 Maud Street are of LOCAL significance.

References

Drainage Plans and Reports, Barwon Water profis system, 1937, 1976, 1995.

Electoral Roll, District Corio, Subdivision Geelong, 1984, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

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) 1893-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Geelong Town Plan 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence