Residence

Previously C Listed - Local Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 150 Corio Street, Geelong, has significance as a partially intact example of a rudimentary Victorian style and for its associations with Roger Kelsall in the mid 19th century. Kelsall was a former Lieutenant Colonel with the Royal Engineers who had been responsible for several convict buildings at Port Arthur, George Town and Maria Island in the early 19th century. This house shows evidence of some alterations, although the original form and construction is extant, and it appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 150 Corio Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Although partially altered, it still demonstrates original design qualities of a rudimentary Victorian style. These qualities include the steeply pitched hipped roof form, projecting hipped convex verandah, rendered brick chimneys with corbelled tops, narrow eaves, rendered brick wall construction, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding and the central timber framed doorway with transom above. Other appropriate qualities include the location of the timber framed double hung windows and the square timber verandah columns.

The house at 150 Corio Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong in the mid 19th century. In particular, this house has associations with Roger Kelsall from at least 1851. Kelsall was a Lieutenant Colonel with the Royal Engineers and had been responsible for the construction of the Church at Port Arthur (1836), guard house at George Town (1838), barracks at Port Arthur (1840) and the barracks and convict hospital on Maria Island (1840).

Overall, the house at 150 Corio Street is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCES

Drainage Plans and Reports, Barwon Water profis system, 1919, 1924, 1986.

Sands & McDougall Geelong Directory 1972, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Sands & McDougall "Invicta" Geelong Directory 1968, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Geelong City Council Rate Books (Bellerine Ward) 1851-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Geelong Town Plan 1858, Public Records Office of Victoria.

Pike, D. (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol.2, 1788-1850 I-Z, 1967, pp. 37-38.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence