Residence

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The substantial house at 20 Ewing Blyth Drive is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. Although altered, it still demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant gable roof form with projecting minor gables, and skillion return verandah to the north and east. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, tall unpainted brick and corbelled chimney, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed windows, gable brackets and the decorative gable infill (ventilator, panelling and battening).

The house at 20 Ewing Blyth Drive is historically significant at a REGIONAL level. It is associated with the Whyte family of "The Heights" Newtown, and Eastern Beach, and later with the Christian Brothers. The site is also significant for its associations with the Flinders Estate subdivision of 1887.

Overall, the house at 20 Ewing Blyth Drive is of LOCAL significance

REFERENCE

1. 'Plan of the Flinders Estate, Barwon Heads', 1887, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

2. Barwon Heads Estate Company Limited subdivision plan, 26 December, 1901, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

3. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1902-03, 1904-05, 1906-07, 1908-09, 1910-11, 1925-26, 1933-34,1958-59.

4. Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, Barwon Heads Sewerage Authority, 1975, Barwon Water Profis system.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence