Green Gables

B Listed - Regional Siginificance

The house known as Green Gables at 65 Mount Pleasant Road is aesthetically significant at a REGIONAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an eclectic interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the steeply pitched gable roof that traverses the site, together with the other minor projecting gables. Other intact qualities include the painted rendered reinforced concrete construction (with small areas of early horizontal weatherboard wall cladding), cement roof tiles, wide eaves and exposed rafters, two unpainted brick chimneys with soldier course cappings, timber framed double hung windows arranged as pairs or horizontal banks of three, oculus window, arched verandah openings (including arched openings with introduced glazing), first floor balcony opening, timber and glazed? front door and sidelight, decorative vertical recessions in the balcony balustrading, window leadlighting and the gable shingling. The early garden, trees and front fence contribute to the significance of the place. The house also contributes to the predominantly single storey Edwardian and interwar Californian Bungalow streetscape.

The house known as Green Gables at 65 Mount Pleasant Road is historically significant at a REGIONAL level. It is associated with Frederick Brand, original owner, whose landholdings were subdivided as Brands subdivision, and as the first owner of this house. It is also associated with Alfred Long, builder, who carried out the concrete work for the approaches of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

The house known as Green Gables at 65 Mount Pleasant Road is scientifically significant at a REGIONAL level. It illustrates unusual reinforced concrete construction for a domestic building of the 1920s and is of importance for contributing to an understanding of this form of construction.

Overall, the house known as Green Gables at 65 Mount Pleasant Road is of REGIONAL significance.

REFERENCE

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

2. Capt. C. Gordon, 'Green Gables at 65 Mt Pleasant Rd., Belmont, As recalled by Shirley Drew in 1986', manuscript.

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

4. Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, 1927, Barwon Water Profis sytem.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House