Residence

The house at 22 Mitchell Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates in a simple manner, original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant gable roof that traverses the site and a verandah gable that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, lapped galvanised corrugated iron, red brick chimney, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed double hung windows arranged in pairs with upper sashes being four paned, front timber and glazed door, plain timber verandah posts and slender, painted brick piers. The house also makes a significant contribution to the single storey, predominatly postwar bungalow residential streetscape.

The house at 22 Mitchell street is historically signifciant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with theLongview Estate subdivsion of 19 March, 1927. It is also historically significant for its associations with the State Savings Bank's finance, design and construction scheme of the 1920's.

Overall, the house of 22 Mitchell Street is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCES

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1927-28, 1928-29, 1929-30.

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

3. Longview Estate subdivision plan, 19 March, 1927, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

4. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1929, Barwon Water Profis system.

5. P. Cuffley, Australian Houses of the Twenties and Thirties, pp.16-17.

6. D. Rowe, 'Building a National Image: The Architecture of John Smith Murdoch, Australia's First Commonwealth Government Architect', PhD (Architecture) Thesis, Deakin University, 1997.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House