Dwelling

History/Notes
The site at 293 Shannon Avenue was acquired by M.J. Denno in 1935. He demolished an earlier timber dwelling shop constructed on the site in c.1870 for James Rock, storekeeper (after Rock's death in 1896 it was owned and operated by Mary Ryan). The existing brick dwelling was built on the site in 1935. In 1936 the property was sold to Mrs Martha Whineray. She lived there until 1943 when the house was sold to Norman Paul.

Martha Fisher Whineray (nee Edmonds) was born in Sydney in c.1877, the daughter of Walter Jobe and Ann (nee Fisher) Edmonds. She married John Wineray and they had two children: Walter and Harry. John Whineray's life was cut short in 1922 as reported in The Argus:
'Mr. John Whineray, aged 60 years, an inspector in the service of the Tramways Board, boarded a cable tram in Elizabeth street at about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and immediately collapsed. He was hurried in a private motor-car to the Melbourne Hospital, but on arrival there was found to be dead. Mr. Whineray lived in Moreland road, East Brunswick.'

The brick interwar Bungalow dwelling largely reflects its original design as shown in the principal hipped roof form and projecting hipped wing at the front. These roofs are clad in tiles. There is an arched entrance porch in the front wing, accessed by brick stairs on the north side. Other original features include the broad eaves, brick chimney, clinker brick wall detailing (banding, quoinwork, keystones in the entrance arches and voussoirs above the windows), timber framed double hung windows and front entrance doorway. On the front boundary is an introduced high bagged brick wall as well as pedestrian and vehicular gates.

References:
Victorian Births, Deaths & Marriages Indexes, Dept. of Justice.
Newtown Rate Books, 1867, 1870-71, 1897-99, 1935-1945, Geelong Library & Heritage Centre.
Newtown Building Permits, 1936, City of Greater Geelong.
The Argus, 12 June 1922.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House