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Location33 Upper Skene Street NEWTOWN, GREATER GEELONG CITY LevelIncl in HO area not sig |
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Not Significant- Newtown West Heritage Area
History/Notes It would appear that the brick dwelling of the early 1860s was
demolished and replaced with a hipped roofed brick veneer dwelling in
late 1971 when the property was owned by J.W. L. Hosking. In 1973, it
was owned by the Sisters of Mercy Property References:
A two-roomed timber cottage appears to have been
erected on this site in c.1859 for J.B. Evans, law clerk. It was
extended or replaced with a four-roomed brick house in 1862-63. The
dwelling was sold to Thomas Wills, cricketer and founder of Australian
Rules football, in 1872. He sold the property to Kennteth Sutherland
in 1878 and in turn, he sold it to John West, gentleman, in 1885. He
lived there until his death in 1898 when the property was described as
"a 7 roomed brick and W.B. house with stable and stud." It
remained in the West family until it was sold to Charles Seeley in
1905-06. He sold it to William McRorie in 1909-10 and he in turn sold
it to William Pearson in 1910-11 (it was addressed as 35 Upper Skene
Street in 1912). Pearson rented the property until his death in 1929.
Association who owned it
until 2002. The dwelling built in late 1971 was demolished in 2012 and
replaced with the existing house. At the front is a high rendered
brick and horizontal timber fence.
Land Applications 77194 & 113058L, General Law
Library, Laverton.
Newtown Rate Books, 1860-61, 1895-1950, Geelong
Library & Heritage Centre.
Planning Permit 12/20-12, City of
Greater Geelong.
Building Permit 1483/2012, City of Greater
Geelong.
J. West, Probate Administration files, 1898, VPRS 28/P2
Unit 499 PROV.
W. Pearson, Probate Administration files, 1929, VPRS
28/P3 Unit 812 PROV.
GWST Amended Plan of Drainage, No. 6136, dated
Sept & Nov 1971, City of Greater Geelong.
J.H. Bottrell,
'Geelong Reminiscences: Early Homes of Newtown', no. 5, part 2, 1930,
published in the Geelong Advertiser, Geelong Family History Group
Inc., collection.
Residential buildings (private)
House