Residence

Location

31 Ozone Road, BARWON HEADS VIC 3227 - Property No 234990

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

C Listed - Local Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 31 Ozone Road is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. Although it has been relocated to this site and undergone various alterations, it still demonstrates some design qualities of the Late Victorian style. These qualities include the recessed gable roof form that traverses the site, together with a skillion front verandah and gable that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roofs, two appropriate (c.1918) painted brick chimneys, timber framed double hung windows, and window hood. The worked timber finials on the gable ends also contribute to the aesthetic significance of the design. This house also makes a significant contribution to the residential, pitched roof streetscape.

The house at 31 Ozone Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Flinders Estate subdivision of 1887 and the land sale by Thomas Roadknight and Co. in 1912.

Overall, the house at 31 Ozone Road is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence