Residence

The house at 372 Myers Street, East Geelong, has significance as a predominantly intact example of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. Built in 1923-24 for Charles Bye, grocer, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 372 Myers Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant gable roof form that traverses the side, together with the attic gable that projects towards the street frontage and the front verandah. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the predominantly single storey height (second storey within the roof space), symmetrical composition, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, terra cotta tile roof cladding, unpainted pressed red brick chimney with terra cotta pot, broad eaves with exposed timber rafters, two projecting bowed bays at the front with timber framed double hung leadlighted windows and brick bases with decorative bandings, central front timber framed doorway with two timber framed and glazed doors, other timber framed double hung windows, unpainted pressed red brick verandah piers with brick cappings and rendered tapered columns, terra cotta finials and the gable infill (timber brackets and timber shingling).

The house at 372 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 Charles Bye, grocer and original owner, who had it built in 1923-24.

Overall, the house at 372 Myers Street is of LOCAL significance.

References

Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system, 1988.

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 Wards), 1923-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Town Plan of Geelong 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence