Residence

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 21 Brown Street, East Geelong, has significance as a largely externally intact example of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. Built in 1927 for T.H. Womersley, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 21 Brown Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the gable roof form that traverses the site, together with a minor verandah gable that projects towards the street frontage, a flat roofed return verandah that projects to the front and side, and a minor gable at the side. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, terra cotta tile roof cladding, unpainted red brick chimney with a soldier course capping and terra cotta pot, wide eaves with exposed timber rafters, unpainted red brick verandah piers with concrete cappings and bandings and soldier course bandings, solid unpainted red brick verandah balustrades with unpainted concrete cappings, timber framed double hung windows, window leadlighting, front timber framed doorway, and the decorative gable infill battening and panelling, timber brackets and timber shingling. The front garden, fence and side garage with vertically boarded timber doors also contribute to the significance of the place.

The house at 21 Brown Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in East Geelong during the interwar 1920s1940s period. In particular, this house has associations with T.H. Womersely, original owner from 1927. Overall, the house at 21 Brown Street is of LOCAL significance.

References

References Drainage Plans and Reports, 1927, Barwon Water Profis system, City of Greater Geelong. Geelong City Council Rate Books, 1926-27, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence