"Honddu Villas", semi-detached villas including interior

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The two storey semi-detached brick villas at 41-43 McKillop Street, Geelong were erected in 1870 for Geelong Businessman GF Link, as an investment. Recently established Scottish architect Alexander Davidson and George Henderson designed these dichromatic brick villas in a picturesque Victorian eclectic mode. The villas, known as 'Honddu Villas' are an important early work of the architects and an unusual building type in Geelong. The use of dichromatic brickwork and Waurn Ponds limestone is a distinctive feature of the design.

RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES

Geelong Regional Commission Register.

Australian Heritage Commission Register of the National Estate.

National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Register.

REFERENCES

Geelong Advertiser - 2nd July, 1870, tender for Double Villa for GF Link esq.

Geelong Historical Society.

Willingham, Alan - 'Two Scots in Victoria. The Architecture of Davidson and Henderson' Master of Architecture thesis, University of Melbourne 1983.

PRESENT OWNER/LESEE - (41) JL Low

ADDRESS - 384 Canterbury Road, Ringwood.

(43) BJ Breheny

ADDRESS - 43 McKillop Street, Geelong

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Villa