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Location27 Swanston Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 218167 LevelIncl in HO area contributory |
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Previously C Listed - Local Significance
The house at 27 Swanston Street, Geelong, has significance as a
moderately intact example of the Victorian style. Built in 1888 to a
design by the Geelong architect A.J. Derrick for F.E. Matthews, the
house has experienced some alterations but appears to be in good
condition when viewed from the street.
REFERENCE
Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system,
1950.
The house at 27 Swanston Street is architecturally significant at
a LOCAL level. Although altered, it still demonstrates original design
qualities of the Victorian style. These qualities include the main
hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with the rear
hipped roof forms that project or recede at the sides and the return
bullnosed verandah that encircles the front the house. Other intact or
appropriate qualities include the predominantly symmetrical
composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall
cladding, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding, narrow eaves with
paired timber brackets and decorative panels between, rendered
chimneys with projecting cornices, central timber framed doorway and
flanking timber framed double hung tripartite windows, other timber
framed double hung windows, and the sidelights to the front doorway.
The front timber picket fence also contributes to the significance of
the place.
The house at 27 Swanston Street is historically significant 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 F.E. Matthews, original owner who instigated
construction in 1888. The house also has associations with the Geelong
architect, A.J. Derrick.
Overall, the house at 27 Swanston Street is of LOCAL significance.
Voters' Roll, Bellerine Ward, 1992, Geelong Historical
Records Centre.
Electoral Roll, Division Corio, Subdivision
Geelong, 1984, 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), 1888-1960, Geelong Historical
Records Centre.
Town Plan of Geelong 1881, Geelong Historical
Records Centre.
Morrow, W.J., Index to the Geelong Advertiser,
1888-1900, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Investigator, Journal
of the Geelong Historical Society, March, 1981.
Residential buildings (private)
Residence