Residence

The dwelling at 8 Mercer Parade is set on a contextually large sized allotment for the area, having a substantial front setback and one wide side setback. The dwelling is set within landscaped grounds with mature trees, open grassed areas and perimeter garden beds. There is an outbuilding at the rear of the site. At the front is a high, introduced capped timber paling fence.

The asymmetrical, face red brick, interwar Arts and Crafts Bungalow styled dwelling is characterized by a broad gable roof form, together with recessive minor attic gables that project at the side and a skillion verandah that encloses the main entrance on the east (side) facade. These roof forms have an affinity with Federation era dwellings and are clad in corrugated sheet metal. Early face red brick chimneys adorn the roofline. Broad overhangs are features of the eaves.

The Mercer Parade elevation features timber framed double hung windows arranged singularly and in pairs. The central single window opening appears to have been altered from a double opening, given that the early concrete lintel extends across to the east. The pair of windows in the south-east corner may have been introduced. Within the gable is an early pair of timber framed double hung windows.

Other early features of the design include the rendered and timber weatherboard gable infill and the paired timber posts supporting the verandah.

Recommendations

Heritage Overlay Schedule Controls

External Paint Controls: Yes

Internal Alteration Controls: No

Tree Controls: No

Outbuildings and/or Fences: No

The HO apply to the whole of the site.

Nil

References

City of Newtown and Chilwell Rate Books 1860-1950, digital copies on CD, Geelong Heritage Centre.

D. Rowe, 'Federation Architects in Geelong', talk presented to the Geelong Historical Society, 2003.

R. Aitken, 'Edwardian Geelong: An Architectural Introduction', Architectural Thesis, Deakin University, 1979.

For God, Home and Humanity; a History of the Geelong City Union of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1888 to 1988, by Judith Pargeter, pub. Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Geelong, 1988

Geelong Waterworks and Sewerage Trust Field Book 021_016 (March 1918).

L. Purnell, 'The Purnell Family History', unpublished manuscript, Geelong Heritage Centre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House