Residence

The house at 264 High Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the recessed gable roof form that traverses the site, together with two gables and a flat roofed corner verandah porch that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed double hung windows arranged as a pair and as a horizontal bank of three and supported by worked timber brackets, front timber and glazed? door with sidelights, square timber verandah posts grouped as a pair and as three and the painted brick piers with concrete cappings, window leadlighting, gable brackets and the decorative gable infill (brackets, shingling, roughcast panelling and timber battening).

The house at 264 High Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Belmont Hill Estate subdivision of 1911.

Overall, the house at 264 High Street is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCE

1. Belmont Hill Estate subdivision plan, August, 1911, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

2. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1931-32, 1933-34, 1934-35, 1935-36, 1942-43, 1955-57, 1957-60.

3. Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, 1960, Barwon Water Profis system.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House