Residence

C Listed - Local Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Thehouse at 3 Regent Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. Although the subfloor space has been altered into a garage with the addition of a tilt-a-door, the house still demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the rear gable thattraverses the site, together with a major gable and verandah gable that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, corbelled brick chimney with a terra cotta pot, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed windows arranged in horizontal banks and having large fixed central lights with two double hung windows at the sides, front doorway and sidelight, face brick verandah piers, window leadlighting and the decorative gable infill (pannelling and battening.)

The house at3 Regent Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the McCauley Estate subdivision of 19 April, 1913.

Overall, the house at 3 Regent Street is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCES

1. Shire of South Barown Rate Books, 1927-28.

2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1958, 1971

3. McCauley Estate Subdivision plan, 19 April, 1913, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

4. Drainage Plans & Inspectors; Reports, 1927, Barown Water Profis system.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House