Residence

C Listed - Local Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 341 Ryrie Street, Geelong, has significance as a predominantly intact example of the interwar Old English style. Built in 1937 for George and Ethel Humble, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 341 Ryrie Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar Old English style. These qualities include the dominant gable roof form that traverses the site, together with the two storey gable that projects towards the street frontage, two hipped dormers that project towards the front, the projecting single storey gable on the east side with the hipped eaves and the recessed projecting bay on the east side. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, two storey height, terra cotta shingle roof cladding, unpainted brick wall construction, dominant unpainted brick chimney with a narrow diagonal shaft and a pointed arched niche at the base, modest eaves, projecting bay window at the front with a conical roof clad in terra cotta shingles, timber framed double hung windows, window lead-lighting, narrow timber framed window with lead-lighting in the upper reaches of the projecting gable, heading bond courses defining the upper reaches of the gable ends and the soldier course bandings at the front. The substantial front landscape also contributes to the significance of the place.

The house at 341 Ryrie Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with substantial residential developments in Geelong during the interwar 1920s1940s period. In particular, this house has associations with George and Ethel Humble, original owners who instigated construction in 1937. George Humble had been the Secretary of the Vulcan Foundry in Geelong, had served with the Commonwealth Bank and was a member of the Geelong Hospital Committee and a Life Governor of the Glastonbury Home.

Overall, the house at 341 Ryrie Street is of LOCAL significance.

References

Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system, 1938, 1987.

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, 1935 -1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Town Plan of Geelong 1923, Public Records Office, Melbourne.

Certificate of Title, dated 15 July 1913.

Extracts from "Humble by Nature", Humble Family Tree Journal, September, 1988, December, 1988, and January 1989, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence