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"Trawawool" house

Location

108 Swanston Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 218233

Level

Incl in HO area indiv sig

Statement of Significance

B Listed - Regional Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE:

Architecturally, a near complete example of a gold-boom era timber house, with valuable verandah and joinery details.

Historically, linked with Alfred Douglass and, via the wool connection, the wool buyer, Foster Marshall and hence it is also evocative of this other main-stay of Geelong's economy.

EXTERNAL INTEGRITY:

Generally original, except for added verandah cast-iron. The new picket fence and verandah posts are sympathetic to the original, as is the colour scheme.

STREETSCAPE:

Contributes to sub-precinct 7.05 and a locally important late Victorian and Edwardian era residential streetscape.

REFERENCES:

CA 20/15A

RB1854-5, 750

RGO SN41324

RGO

RB1920, 360: RB1930. 379

INV. Vol 2, No 1, p59

Loc. Cit 12,75, p118f

Ibid

RB1860-1, 339; RB1863-4, 310; RB1861-2, 336

RB1910, 416; RB1900, 421

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House