Barwon Heads Golf Club

The Barwon Heads Golf Clubhouse at 1 Golf Links Road is aesthetically significant at a STATE level. It demonstrates several original design qualities of a grand interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant gable roof form that traverses the site, together with minor gables, flat roof two storey bay windows, flat roofed verandah porch (with balcony above) and parapetted and tapestry brick, arched entrance that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the horizontal and vertical weatherboard wall cladding, lapped corrugated fibro cement roof cladding, two unpainted brick chimneys, wide eaves, timber framed double hung windows (some with six-paned upper lights), other timber framed windows, timber and glazed entrance and balcony doors, timber verandah columns (arranged in triplet at the corner and singularly at the ends) supported by unpainted brick piers with projecting cappings, front lounge and dining room with plastered walls, exposed beams, unpainted brick fireplaces, polished timber floors, timber detailing, and the original leather chairs and settees, and the dining room tables and chairs. The Barwon Heads Golf Club at 1 Golf Links Road is historically significant at a STATE level. It is associated with the development of the Barwon Heads golf course of a links design, the first established course of this type in Australia. It is also the first clubhouse with accommodation (for both sexes), based upon country club lines in Victoria. The clubhouse has associations with Laird and Buchan, supervising architects, Klingender and Hamilton, architects, and John Smith and J.C. Taylor and Sons, builders. The Barwon Heads Golf Club at 1 Golf Links Road is socially significant at a STATE level. It is recognised and highly valued by sections of the community for its golf and recreational associations. Overall, the Barwon Heads Golf Club at 1 Golf Links Road is of STATE significance. Recommendation: It is recommended that a Conservation Management Plan be carried out on this building and its immediate surrounds, which considers the Barwon Heads Clubhouse Master Plan.

References

1. Pescott, South Barwon 1857-1985, p.157, 162. 2. G.C. Adams, History of Barwon Heads Golf Club 1907-1973, Barwon Heads Golf Club, Barwon Heads, 1973, pp.60-71. 3. Geelong Advertiser, 17 January, 1922, 18 December, 1922, 28 March, 1923, 27 July, 1923, 6 December, 1924. 4. K. McEwan, 'The Golf Clubs of Victoria: VIII Barwon Heads is the Mecca of all Champions - and Some Others', in The Australian Home Beautiful, 1 October, 1929, pp.34-37. 5. P. Thomson, Peter Thomson's classic golf holes of Australia, Lothian, Melbourne, 1988. 6. K.H. MacGowan - Vice President of the Barwon Heads Golf Club, Letter to David Rowe, December, 1999.

Group

Recreation and Entertainment

Category

Golf Course