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Location4 Pevensey Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 217289 LevelIncl in HO area indiv sig |
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Significant
C -Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 4 Pevensey Street, Geelong, has significance as a legacy
of residential developments in Geelong during the Federation era.
Built in 1901 for David Griffiths, brother of William Griffiths who
established Griffiths Book Store in Ryrie Street, the house has
experienced some alterations and additions, although the early hipped
roof forms, front gable and broken back return verandahs are still extant. The house at 4 Pevensey Street is architecturally significant at a
LOCAL level. Although altered and extended, it still demonstrates some
original design qualities of the Federation style. These qualities
include the recessed hipped roof form, together with the hipped roof
and minor gable that project towards the street frontage, and the
return broken back verandah that projects to the front and sides.
Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical
composition, predominant single storey height, horizontal weatherboard
wall cladding, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding, two strapped
brick, multi-corbelled chimneys with terra cotta pots (excluding
paintwork), modest eaves, turned timber verandah columns, arched and
rectangular timber fretwork verandah valances, and the timber framed
banks of double hung windows with highlights under the verandah,
including the projecting chamfered corner bay. The substantial palm
tree also contributes to the significance of the place. The house at 4 Pevensey Street is historically significant at a LOCAL
level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong
during the Federation (c.1895-1915) period. In particular, this house
has associations with David Griffiths, solicitor and original owner
who had it built in 1901. Griffiths's brother, William Joseph
Griffiths, was the founder of the long-established and well-known
Geelong book shop, Griffiths Book Store in Ryrie Street.Overall, the
house at 4 Pevensey Street is of LOCAL significance. Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system, 1991.Voters'
Roll, Bellerine Ward, 1992, Geelong Historical Records Centre.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 (Bellerine Ward), 1900-1960, Geelong Historical Records
Centre.Town Plan of Geelong 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
The Geelong Advertiser, November, 1976, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Residential buildings (private)
Residence