Residence

The house at 1 Noble Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. Although a modest house, it demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the major galvanised corrugated iron gable roof form, with a projecting flat roof rectangular bay window to the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed windows arranged as a horizontal bank the window with the central fixed light having a bowed sash and flanked by double hung windows, timber window and gable brackets and the gable ventilator.

The house at 1 Noble Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Monomeeth Estate subdivision of 27 December, 1909.

Overall, the house at 1 Noble Street is of LOCAL significance. Statement of Cultural Significance

REFERENCE

See Heritage Victoria file no. 605113.

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

Monomeeth Estate subdivision plan, 27 December, 1909, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Complete Plan of Barwon Heads, Thomas Roadknight & Co., 22 October, 1912, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 191516, 191920, 192122, 192425, 192526, 192627, 192728, 192829, 194041.

Drainage Plans and Inspectors Reports, Barwon Heads Sewerage Authority, 1973, Barwon Water Profis system.

Interview by David Rowe with Nell Andrew, Barwon Heads, 19 October, 1999.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence