"Melaleuca", house including interior

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

'Melaleuca' erected in 1854 for William Noble is a single storey rendered brick building with slate roof with unusual paired eaves brackets. The recessed entry porch and quoining to entry, and series of French doors, place this building in the Regency style in the Regency style and therefore of great architectural interest in Victoria. The doors are a similar design to 'Carlyle', although the shutters have been removed. The house is enhanced by its remnants of an early garden. The building is a distinctive work of the innovative Geelong architectural firm of Snell & Prowse.

RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES

Geelong Regional Commission Register

Historic Buildings Council register

Australian Heritage Commission Register of the National Estate

REFERENCES

Huddle, Lorraine - 'Architects in Geelong in the 1840's and 1850's, Humanities Research Report, Department of Architecture, University of Melbourne, 1979. ol 1, p.52. vol. 3. p.128.

Geelong Advertiser - 15th August 1854, 27 November 1854, 13th March 1855, tender notices.

Sutherland, Alexander, Victoria and its Metropolis, Past and Present, McCarron, Bird and Co, Melbourne, 1888.Vil 2. p. 164, biographical Sketch of Charles J Howard.

Campbell, Rev. Dr A. J. Tourist Guide to Geelong and Southern Watering Places, M. L. Hutchinson, Melbourne, 1892. p 19.

Geelong Historical Society Investigator, 1982, p.135 'Melaleuca' - Kensington (Leopold) a 38 acre property overlooking Lake Connewarre, brought from Councillor Michael O'Farrell by William Noble for ₤35 in 1854. House advertised as having 2 reception rooms and 3 bedrooms when offered for sale 12 November 1856. In 1859 property sold to A. M. Campbell who enlarged the jouse.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House