Residence

The house at 63 Francis Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a late Edwardian style. These qualities include the dominant hipped roof form, together with a projecting gable to the street frontage, return skillion verandah and a recent, hipped roof at the rear. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, painted galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, corbelled brick chimney with two terra cotta pots, narrow eaves, timber framed double hung windows arranged in pairs, window hood supported by worked timber brackets, and the interwar Bungalow gable infill (brackets, shingling, panelling and battening). The house also makes a significant contribution to the single storey streetscape of mixed Edwardian, interwar Californian Bungalow and postwar homes, although the fence has a negative impact of the street.

The house at 63 Francis Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with Burke's subdivision of the Belmont Estate.

Overall, the house at 63 Francis Street is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCE

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1919-20, 1920-21, 1922-23, 1923-24, 1924-25, 1925-26, 1927-28.

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

3. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1927, Barwon Water profis system.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House