"Glen Alvie"

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The building known as "Glen Alvie" at 246-248 Ryrie Street, Geelong, has significance as a predominantly intact example of the Federation Free style and for is associations with the early Geelong artist, Alexander Webb. Built in 1905 for Henry Stringer, painter and decorator, the building appears to be fair-good condition.

"Glen Alvie" at 246-248 Ryrie Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an intact Federation Free style. These qualities include the rendered decorative parapet with a central stylised pediment and elaborate plaster floral relief within, flanking pyramidal cappings above rectangular piers that have incised rectangular panels, tapered parapet cappings to the outer bays with additional floral relief within the parapet panels, and the projecting rendered and moulded stringcourse forming the lower reaches of the parapet, and the three-bayed facade composition articulated by the unpainted red brick pilasters. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the symmetrical-like composition, unpainted brick wall construction, unpainted broad brick chimney with a moulded and tapered top and four terra cotta pots, curved unpainted brick parapets on the east and west elevations, off-centre recessed entrance with a shallow rendered pediment that is supported by a concrete lintel and two round, squat Ionic columns in antis on projecting unpainted brick base walls, timber framed and glazed doorway in the recessed entrance, segmentally-arched ground floor doorway, shopfront ingo with timber framed and glazed door and transom window, segmentally-arched, timber framed double hung first floor windows, central timber framed double hung first floor windows with linking cement rendered rectangular label moulds above, cream brick banding, cream brick window voussoirs, projecting cement rendered stringcourses above the ground and first floor openings, and the rear double gabled wing with a brick parapet on the west elevation.

"Glen Alvie" at 246-248 Ryrie Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with commercial developments in Geelong in the early 1900s. In particular, this building has associations with Henry Stringer, painter and decorator and original owner from 1905. The building also has associations with the early Geelong artist, Alexander Webb, who painted landscapes and Geelong street scenes, and who was also an employee of the Stringer painting and decorating business.

Overall, "Glen Alvie" at 246-248 Ryrie Street is of LOCAL significance.

References

Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system, 1972.

Sands & McDougalls Directory of Geelong, 1972, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

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

Geelong City Council Rate Books Barwon Ward, 18991960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Geelong Town Plan 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Geelong Advertiser 25 November, 1935, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Journal of the Geelong Historical Society "Investigator", August, 1970, P.140-142, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

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Health Services

Category

Clinic