Residence

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 14 Orchard Street, East Geelong, has significance as a predominantly intact example of the Federation style. Built in 1912 for Herbert Saywell, law clerk, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street. The house at 14 Orchard Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the Federation style. These qualities include the steeply pitched hipped roof form, together with the minor gables that project at the front and side, and the hipped verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding, two unpainted red brick chimneys with multi-corbelled tops and terra cotta pots, modest eaves with exposed timber rafters, front projecting bowed bay with timber framed casement windows, leadlighted highlights and timber shingling above, side bank of three timber framed casement windows with highlights and a timber framed window hood (supported by large timber brackets), other timber framed double hung windows under the front verandah and at the sides, timber framed front doorway with a panelled timber door having a glazed upper panel and transom window, worked decorative timber verandah columns with elaborate capitals, and the gable infill (stucco-like panelling and timber battening, and the timber brackets). The front capped timber picket fence and gate also contribute to the significance of the place. The house at 14 Orchard Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in East Geelong during the Federation (c.1895-1915) period. In particular, this house has associations with Herbert Saywell, law clerk and original owner who had it built in 1912. Overall, the house at 14 Orchard Street is of LOCAL significance.

References

Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system, 1968.

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), 1910-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Town Plan of Geelong 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence