Residence

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house known as Bavelaw at 22-24 Stephens Parade is aesthetically significant at a REGIONAL level. It demonstrated original design qualities of the interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the two storey, hipped roof wing, together with single storey hipped roof structures to the east, west and south. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, unpainted and lapped corrugated asbestos or fibro cement roof cladding, two cement rendered chimneys, wide eaves, timber framed double hung windows and the slight bellcast profile of the roof ends. The house also makes a significant contribution to the interwar Bungalow character of the Golf Links precinct.

The house known as Bavelaw at 22-24 Stephens Parade is historically significant at a REGIONAL level. It is associated with the development of the Barwon Heads Golf Course from c1919, the Golf Links/Golf Lands subdivision of c1920-21 and the development of the Great Ocean Road.

Overall, the house known as Bavelaw at 22-24 Stephens Parade is of REGIONAL significance.

REFERENCE:

J Pescott, South Barwon 1857-1985 South Barwon City Council, Belmont, 1985, p 157.

Barwon Heads Golf Links Subdivision plan, c1920-21, Geelong Historical Records centre.

Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1922-23, 1923-24, 1927-28, 1928-29, 1931-32, 1935, 1941-42, 1944-45, 1958-59.

'Great Ocean Road History Notes', complied by Peter Alsop, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House