Residence

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 3 McKillop Street, Geelong, has significance as a reasonably externally intact example of the Late Victorian Italianate style. Built between 1893 and 1896, the house appears to be in fair condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 3 McKillop Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian Italianate style. These qualities include the hipped roof forms, together with the return concave verandah that projects at the front and sides. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the slate roof cladding, galvanised corrugated steel verandah cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, single storey height, asymmetrical composition, projecting window bays with pyramidal roofs, timber framed double hung windows, timber verandah columns with projecting timber capitals, decorative cast iron verandah valances and brackets, modest eaves, and the timber framed doorway with four panelled timber door and side and high lights.

The house at 3 McKillop Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong in the late 19th century. In particular, this house has associations with Donald M. Jackson of Melbourne, who had it built between 1893 and 1896.

Overall, the house at 3 McKillop Street is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCE

Drainage Plans and Reports, 1918, 1941, 1981, 1982, Barwon Water profis system, City of Greater Geelong.
Sands & McDougall Directory of Geelong, 1972, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Sands & McDougall "Invicta" Geelong Directory, 1968, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Geelong City Rate Books, Barwon Ward, 1893-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Geelong Town Plan 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence