Residence

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 18 Ewing Blyth Drive is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. Although it has been altered and extended, it still demonstrates some original design qualities of a Late Victorian Picturesque style. These qualities include recessed hipped roof, together with a projecting gable to the street frontage and a return skillion verandah. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, two rendered brick and corbelled chimneys with terra cotta pots, timber framed double hung windows, and the worked timber bargeboards on the projecting gable.

The house at 18 Ewing Blyth Drive is historically significant at a REGIONAL level. It is associated the original owner, Howard Hitchcock, Geelong Mayor and Director of the well established firm of Bright and Hitchcocks. The house is also historically significant for its associations with the Flinders Estate subdivision of 1887. The underground tank on the site may be historically and scientifically significant with further documentary and physical research.

Overall, the house at 18 Ewing Blyth Drive is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCES

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

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

Brownhill & Wynd, The History of Geelong and Corio Bay With Postscript 1955-1990, revd. edn., The Geelong Advertiser, Geelong, 1990, p.320.

Smith ed., The Cyclopedia of Victoria, vol. 2, The Cyclopedia Company, Melbourne, 1904, p.456. 5.

Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1898-99, 1899-1900, 1901-02, 1902-03, 1906-07, 1908-09, 1910-11, 1920-21, 1925-26, 1933-34, 1958-59.

Drainage Plans and Inspectors Reports, Barwon Heads Sewerage Authority, 1977.

Geelong Advertiser, 19 July, 1886.

N. Houghton, Geelong 150 Years of Community Leadership 18491999, City of Greater Geelong, Geelong, 1999, p.22.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence