Residence

The house at 67 Mount Pleasant Road is aesthetically significant at a REGIONAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of both the Late Victorian and Edwardian styles. These qualities include dominant hipped roof form, together with a gable roof that projects towards the street frontage and a recessed (and projecting) return bullnosed verandah predominantly formed under the main roof. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, two tall rendered chimneys with projecting coursing and cappings and terra cotta pots, narrow eaves, timber framed windows, four panelled timber and glazed front door and sidelights, worked timber verandah columns with decorative cast iron lacework brackets and valance, paired worked timber eaves brackets with roundels between, metal roof ridge ornaments, gable bargeboards and the decorative gable infill (stucco work and battening). The exotic trees in the front yard, including the magnolia, contribute to the significance of the place. The house also contributes to the predominantly single storey residential streetscape.

The house at 67 Mount Pleasant Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the G.S. Vince?, nursery man to Queen Victoria, and original owner.

Overall, the house at 67 Mount Pleasant Road is of REGIONAL significance.

REFERENCE

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1910-11, 1920-21, 1921-22, 1923-24, 1924-25, 1927-28.

2. Sand's and McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1957, 1972.

3. Oral information from Captain Chris Gordon, 1998 and Mrs Kathleen Gordon, 1999.

4. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1926-1991, Barwon Water Profis system.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House