Residence

The house at 103 Mount Pleasant Road is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. Although altered, it still demonstrates some design qualities of the Victorian style. These qualities include the recessed hipped roof form, together with a minor hipped roof that projects towards the street frontage and sides. Other intact qualities include the stone and timber construction, slate roof tiles, galvanised corrugated iron verandah roof cladding, rendered brick chimneys, narrow eaves and the form of the verandah.

The house at 103 Mount Pleasant Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with early farming developments in Belmont in the nineteenth century, and notably as a vineyard. It is also associated with Morris Jacobs, original and long time owner and Geelong draper. The house and surrounding land has associations with the Jacobs Estate subdivision of c.1925, when major portions of outlying land of Jacobs's property were subdivided and sold as suburban allotments.

Overall, the house at 103 Mount Pleasant Road is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCE

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1873-75, 1884-85, 1886-87, 1890-91, 1895-96, 1899-1900, 1907-08, 1921-22, 1924-25, 1940-41, 1948-49, 1947-48, 1955-57, 1958-60.

2. Geelong Advertiser, 16 December, 1870.

3. Drainage Plans and Inspectors Reports, and also Certificate of Title, 1952-1955, Barwon Water Profis sytem.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House