Residence

The house at 27 Evans Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. Although it has experienced some minor alterations to the verandah, the house still demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the recessed major gable roof form together with a gable roof and flat roofed verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, tall brick chimney, wide eaves, timber framed double hung windows arranged as horizontal banks of three, worked timber window brackets, front timber and glazed? door, flat roofed verandah that extends across the street facade to form a window hood, window leadlighting, worked verandah rafters, gable brackets and the gable infill (brackets, joinery simulating shingling, panelling and battening). The house also contributes to the predominantly single storey weatherboard Edwardian and interwar Californian Bunglow streetscape.

The house at 27 Evans Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Mount Pleasant Estate subdivision of 21 December, 1889.

Overall, the house at 27 Evans Street is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCES

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1925-26, 1926-27, 1928-29.

2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1957, 1972.

3. Mount Pleasant Estate Subdivision plan, 21 December, 1889, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

4. Drainage Plans & Inspectors' Reports, 1929, Barwon Water Profis system.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House