Residence

The house at 99 Francis Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant gable roof form, together with a minor gable roof and a flat roofed verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, brick chimney with a soldier course capping, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed windows arranged in banks of three having a wide central light with a bowed sash and side double hung windows, flat roofed window hood supported by plain timber brackets, front timber and glazed door, window leadighting and the decorative gable infill (brackets, shingling, stucco work and battening). The house also makes a contribution to the single storey streetscape of mixed Edwardian, interwar Californian Bungalow and postwar homes.

The house at 99 Francis Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Pinnacle Estate of the 1920s.

Overall, the house at 99 Francis Street is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCE

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1926-27, 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