Residence

C Listed - Local Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 335 Ryrie Street, Geelong, has significance as an intact example of a Victorian eclectic style. Built in 1884 for Samuel Matthews to a design by the Geelong architect, Joseph Watts, the house appears to be in fair/poor condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 335 Ryrie Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian eclectic style. These qualities include the recessed hipped roof form, together with the minor hipped roof, gabled window bay and side hipped concave verandah that all project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, unpainted brick wall base, two rendered brick chimneys with projecting tops, narrow eaves with worked timber brackets and rectangular panels between, front projecting bays with banks of three timber framed double hung full-length windows having highly decorative leadlighted upper sashes and timber shingled base walling, round cast iron verandah columns with decorative pedestals and capitals, decorative framed cast iron verandah valances, cast iron verandah brackets, front timber framed doorway with a four panelled timber door and leadlighted sidelights and highlights, timber base panels to the sidelights, bracketed timber window hood and the gable infill stuccoed panelling and timber battening. The front timber picket fence and hedge also contribute to the significance of the place.

The house at 335 Ryrie Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular, this house has associations with Samuel Matthews, original owner from 1884. It has further associations with the two neighbouring houses at 337 and 339 Ryrie Street that were originally owned by F.S. Orchard. Although differing in style, all three houses were designed and constructed simultaneously by the Geelong architect, Joseph Watts in 1884. Overall, the house at 335 Ryrie Street is of LOCAL significance.

References

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Voters Roll, Bellerine Ward, 1992, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Electoral Roll, Division Corio, Subdivision Geelong, 1984, 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, 18841960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Town Plan of Geelong 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Morrow, W.J., Index to the Geelong Advertiser, 1884, Geelong Historical records Centre.

D. Rowe, Architecture of Geelong 18601900, B. Arch. Thesis, Deakin University, 1991.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence