Residence

The house at 356 Myers Street, East Geelong, has significance as an intact example of the interwar Bungalow style. Built in 1921 for John Watson, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 356 Myers Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the complex roof forms including the rear recessed hipped roof, together with two gables that project towards the Myers Street frontage, the side gable that projects towards Meakin Street, and the flat-roofed corner verandah that projects towards Myers Street. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding, two rendered brick chimneys with face brick straps and tops and terra cotta pots, wide eaves with exposed timber rafters, timber framed double hung windows, including the boxed bank of the under the projecting Myers Street gable, small timber window brackets, tapered, stucco verandah column and unpainted red brick pier, and the gable infill (stuccoed wall finish and timber ventilators). The front capped and flat timber picket fence and lychgate also contribute to the significance of the place.

The house at 356 Myers Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in East Geelong during the interwar (1920s-1940s) period. In particular, this house has associations with John Watson, original owner who had it built in 1921.

Overall, the house at 356 Myers Street is of LOCAL significance.

References

Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system, 1959.

Sands & McDougall's Directory of Geelong, 1972, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Sands & McDougall's "Invicta" Geelong Directory,1968, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Geelong City Council Rate Books (Ormond and Barwon Ward), 1921-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Town Plan of Geelong 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence