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Other Name- Location42 BROWN STREET, LEONGATHA, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The house at 42 Brown Street, Leongatha, constructed in 1913-14 for Richard and Ethel Bishop, is significant. This asymmetrical Federation timber bungalow features a steeply pitched hip roof with front facing gablet and projecting gables to Brown Street and to the West. There is a separate return verandah between these two projecting gables supported by turned timber posts. The house has small half-timbered flying gables and an original front door with sidelights and highlights, however the leadlight is not original but the coloured glass in the toplights are.
Other key features include:
Other key features include:
- Square edged weatherboards
- Notched weatherboards to resemble shingles at the gable ends
- Two corbelled brick chimneys with rendered caps
- Paired double hung sash windows in the front projecting bay
- Two box bay windows with triple casement windows and toplights under the verandah
- The sympathetic repairs include Replaced concrete verandah floor
- New window hood on projecting bay
Non-original alterations and additions are not significant.
How is it significant?
The house at 42 Brown Street, Leongatha is of historic and aesthetic significance to the South Gippsland Shire.
Why is it significant?
Historically, this house was on 4 acres of land and built for Richard and Ethel Bishop in 1904 with significant additions in 1913. This house demonstrates the number of small farms that existed on the edge of Leongatha in the early 20 th Century. It was around this time that there was an important phase of growth in population in Leongatha, of which this house was a part. (Criterion A)
Aesthetically, it is a well detailed, intact example of a Federation Bungalow that has been sympathetically restored. The building features a flying half-timber gable ends which are rare within the South Gippsland Shire. This house significantly contributes to the streetscape of Brown Street and surrounds. (Criterion E)
Aesthetically, it is a well detailed, intact example of a Federation Bungalow that has been sympathetically restored. The building features a flying half-timber gable ends which are rare within the South Gippsland Shire. This house significantly contributes to the streetscape of Brown Street and surrounds. (Criterion E)
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Community Facilities
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House