Residence

The house known as Fairways at 8-10 Stephens Parade is aesthetically significant at a REGIONAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant hipped roof form, together with a minor ventilator gable that projects towards the north. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, brick chimney, wide eaves with exposed rafters, timber framed windows, north verandah under the projection of the main hipped roof supported by paired timber posts, vertical timber verandah balustrade, and the gable ventilator. The house also makes a significant contribution to the interwar Bungalow character of the Golf Links precinct.

The house known as the Fairways at 8-10 Stephens Parade is historically significant at a REGIONAL level. It is associated with the redevelopment of the Barwon Heads Golf Course from c1919, the Golf Links/Golf Lands subdivision of c1920 and the development of the Great Ocean Road.

Overall the house known as Fairways at 8-10 Stephens Parade is of REGIONAL significance.

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

Residence