Residence

C Listed - Local Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 333 Ryrie Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the Victorian Picturesque style. These qualities include the recessed hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with the gable and side convex verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, unpainted brick chimney with a corbelled top, narrow eaves with paired timber brackets and rectangular panels between, front timber framed double hung tripartite window, other timber framed double hung windows, timber framed doorway with a four panelled timber door and sidelights and highlights, square timber verandah columns with moulded timber capitals surmounted by cast iron brackets, timber framed cast iron verandah valance decorated with a rinceau pattern, turned timber finial surmounting the gable, and the worked timber bargeboards.

The house at 333 Ryrie Street is historically significance at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong in the second half of the 19th century. In particular, this house has associations with Arthur Ince, possible original owner in the 1880s, and with George Griggs, owner in 1899. Overall, the house at 333 Ryrie Street is of LOCAL significance.

References

Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system, 1917, 1974. Voters Roll, Bellerine Ward, 1992, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

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

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

Geelong City Council Rate Books Bellerine Ward, 18761960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Town Plan of Geelong 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence