Shop & Residence

The shop and residence at 56 Hitchcock Avenue, Barwon Heads are aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. They demonstrate original and early design qualities. The shop demonstrates original qualities of the post-war era which include the hipped roof form clad in tiles, stepped cement sheet parapet, projecting flat roofed verandah over the footpath supported by square steel posts, central ingo with flanking metal framed shopfront windows, and the window highlights (albeit painted over). Other intact qualities include the single storey height, rendered wall construction, broad eaves at the sides and the small rectangular side windows.

Although the rear residence has been relocated and altered, it still demonstrates early or appropriate design qualities of the early 20th century era. These qualities include the recessive hipped roof form, together with the gable that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, wide eaves with exposed timber rafters, window openings, and the face brick chimney.

The shop and residence at 55 Hitchcock Avenue, Barwon Heads are historically significant at a LOCAL level. They are associated with commercial developments in Barwon Heads immediately after the second world war in the 1940s. In particular, this property is associated with Alfred Ronald (jack) Jennings, who relocated the residence to the site (from the corner of Noble and Jasper Streets, Newtown) in 1943-44 and who instigated the construction of the shop in c. 1949-50. This shop was originally called the "Orungal Milk Bar", having been named after the Orungal which came aground near Barwon Heads in 1940.

Overall, the shop and residence at 56 Hitchcock Avenue, Barwon Heads are of LOCAL significance.

References

Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1940-41, 1941-42, 1942-43, 1943-44, 1946-47, 1947-48, 1948-49, 1950/1-1951/2, 1952/3 - 1954/5.

Barwon Heads Estate company Limited subdivision plan, 30 March 1891, Bellarine Historical Society.

'Complete Plan of Barwon Heads' Thomas Roadknight & Co., 22 October 1912, Bellarine Historical Society.

'Complete Plan of Barwon heads'. M. Taylor, 22nd October 1929, Bellarine Historical Society.

Interview by Susie Zada with Les Jennings, nephew of Alfred Ronald (Jack) Jennings, November 2002.

Stephens, Russell H.T., The Road to Kardinia, The Story of the Geelong Football Club, Playright Publishing, Sydney, 1996 p. 137.

Houghton, Norman, Geelong 150 years of Community Leadership 1859-1999, City of Greater Geelong, Geelong, 1999. p. 22

Group

Retail and Wholesale

Category

Shop