Residence

B Listed - Regional Significance

The house at 2-4 Carr Street is aesthetically significant at a REGIONAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the steeply pitched gable roof that traverses the site, together with a skillion dormer and minor single storey gable form to the south. Other intact qualities include the chimney, timber framed windows, window hood structure, and the gable brackets and battening. The house at 2-4 Carr Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Flinders Estate subdivision of 1887, and with the Barwon Heads Estate subdivision of c.1910, and with the Hay family, long time owners. Overall, the house at 2-4 Carr Street is of REGIONAL significance. Statement of Cultural Significance

References

1. Plan of the Flinders Estate, Barwon Heads, 1887, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

2. Barwon Heads Estate subdivision plan, c.1910, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

3. H. Lott is listed on the Complete Plan of Barwon Heads, 22 October, 1912, Thomas Roadknight amp Co., Geelong Historical Records Centre.

4. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1913-14, 1914-15, 1918-19, 1920-21, 1921-22, 1922-23, 1927-28, 1930-31, 1935-36, 1938-39, 1941-42, 1958-59, 1959-60.

5. Geelong and District Telephone Directory, 1955.

6. Interview with Frank Austin, Barwon Heads, 1998.

7. Drainage Plans and Inspectors Reports, Barwon Heads Sewerage Authority, 1974, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

8. P. Cuffley, Australian Houses of the Twenties amp Thirties, 2nd edn., Five Mile Press, Noble Park, 1997.

9. G. Butler, The Californian Bungalow in Australia, Lothian Publishing Company, Port Melbourne, 1992.

10. K. McEwan, The Golf Clubs of Victoria, in The Australian Home Beautiful, 1 October, 1929, pp.3436.

11. Correspondence from P.H. Hay, property owner, to City of Greater Geelong, 13 August 2001. References

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence