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Sandstone Residence

Location

5 McCann Street, CERES VIC 3221 - Property No 232801

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

B listed - Regional significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The Barrabool sandstone building in Heal Street, Ceres was most probably constructedin the mid 1850s as a semi-detached pair of colonial Georgian style cottages.

These cottages were erected for George Cox, a leading Episcopalean and a member of the Total Abstinence Society. They are of distinctly vernacular or pattern book origin and survive to illustrate the character of buildings I the once thriving Ceres Village, a centre in the Barrabool Hills for farming and citicultural pursuits. The original cottages now merge to form one dwelling.

REFERENCES

Geelong Historical Society - Investigator, September, 1972, Vol 7, p.79.

PRESENR OWNERS/LESEE: IJ & BM Spitty

ADDRESS: 5-7 McCann street, Ceres 3221

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE - Greater Geelong Outer Areas Heritage Study - Stage 2

Refer to A. Willingham, Geelong Region Historic Buildings and Objects Study, vol.1, sheet 57

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence