"Royd Grange"

The house known as "Royd Grange" at 2 Royd Grange Court is aesthetically significant at a REGIONAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a transitional Late Victorian/Queen Anne style. These qualities include the Flemish bond red brickwork, picturesque hipped slate roof forms, pyramidal tower and bay windows, and bullnosed corrugated iron verandah. Other intact qualities include the octagonal two storey tower, strapped brick chimneys with terra cotta pots, timber framed double hung windows, timber entrance doors with sidelights, bullnosed verandah supported by cast iron Ionic columns with a decorative iron valance and brackets, worked timber eaves brackets, iron ridge cresting of the tower, cream brick bands along the walls, and the cream brick arches in the tower.

The house known as "Royd Grange" at 2 Royd Grange Court is historically significant at a REGIONAL level. It is associated with the woollen textile magnate Godfrey Hirst, who was the managing director of the Excelsior Woollen Mills in South Geelong, and with the Geelong architects, Laird and Buchan.

Overall, the house known as "Royd Grange" at 2 Royd Grange Court is of REGIONAL significance.

REFERENCE

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1923-24, 1927-28.

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

3. Rowe, 'Architecture of Geelong: 1860-1900', sheet 327.

4. Lorraine Huddle, Master of Architecture research notes on the architects, Laird and Barlow.

5. G. Ball, 'Shadows on the Wall', p.84.

6. Belmont Community News, vol.1, no.4, Spring, 1987.

7. Brownhill and Wynd, The History of Geelong and Corio Bay With Postscript 1955-1990, p.318.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House