Boat House (former)

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 20 Ozone Road comprising a former boat shed is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. While the building has undergone substantial alterations and additions during its conservsion into a house, it continues to demonstrate original design qualities of a Late Federation style. These qualities include the projecting gable roof form, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, wide eaves, timber porch structure and decorative window elements, andthe decorative gable infill (shingling and ventilators).

The house at 20 Ozone Road comprising a former boat shed is historically significant at a STATE level. It is associated with the decision by the Government to outlaw the practice of private occupation of the foreshore, which later became a uniform policy throughout the State. It is also historically significant at a LOCAL level for its association with the half a mile of boatsheds once located on the Barwon Heads foreshore. In particular, this former boat shed has associations with Ewen Laird, Geelong architect, and Miss Jessie McKechnie, long serving and respected teacher of Barwon Heads.

The house at 20 Ozone Road comprising a former boat shed 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.

Overally, the house at 20 Ozone Road comprising a former boat shed 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, 1935-36, 1936-37, 1438-39, 1940-41, 1948-49, 1955-58, 1959-60.

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

The Sun, 11 June, 1936, The Geelong Advertiser, 11 June 1936.

Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, Barwon Heads Sewerage Authority, Barwon Water Profis System.

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

McArthur Estate subdivision plan, December, 1916, Geelong Historical Records Centre

Flinders Estate subdivision plan, 1887, Geelong Historical Records Centre

Information from Bill & Barbara Howard, current owners, sourcing Certificates of Title and personal history.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence