Residence - Former Boat House x 2

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 10 Ewing Blyth Drive comprising two former boat sheds is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. While the rear of the boat sheds have been substantially altered during their conversion into a house, they continue to demonstrate original design qualities of a Late Federation style. These qualities include the two projecting gable roof forms which are linked by a recessed gable that traverses the site. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding and galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, timber framed double hung windows, double timber doors under both gable porches, worked timber porch posts with worked timber brackets on the southern porch, and the flying gables of vertical timber fretwork. The substantial Norfolk Island pine and cypress trees on the site contribute to the significance of the place.

The house at 10 Ewing Blyth Drive comprising two former boat sheds is historically significant at a STATE level. It is associated with the decision by the Government to outlaw the practice of private occupation of foreshore, which later became a uniform policy throughout the State. It is also historically significant at a LOCAL level for its associations with the half a mile of boatsheds once located on the Barwon Heads foreshore.

The house at 10 Ewing Blyth Drive comprising two former boat sheds is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised by the community for its associations with the development of Barwon Heads as a holiday resort at the turn of the century and demonstrates, in architectural terms, a custom of beach recreation that is no longer in use.

Overall, the house at 10 Ewing Blyth Drive comprising two former boat sheds is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCES

'Geelong Harbour Trust' in the Geelong Advertiser, 20 March, 1936.

N Houghton 'From the Archives', in the Investigator, September 1983, pp 101-105.

'Geelong Harbour Trust - Boat Shed Standard', drawing in the collection of the Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1925-26, 1928-29, 1933-34, 1937-38, 1940-41. 1958-59, 1959-60.

Barwon Heads Estate subdivision plan, 30 March, 1891, Geelong Histroical Records Centre.

The Sun - 11 June, 1936, the Geelong Advertiser - 11 June, 1936

Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, Barwon Heads Sewereage Authority, 1976, Barwon Water Profis System.

'The Geelong Harbour Trust Commissioners - Boat Shed, Barwon Heads' - 10 January, 1913, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence