Residence

C Listed - Local Significance

Statement of Cultural Significance

The house at 240 Malop Street, Geelong, has significance as a predominantly intact example of an unusual Eclectic Late Victorian and Early Edwardian style. Built to a design by the Geelong architect Joseph Watts for Lawrence Ryan in 1890-91 using Barrabool sandstone from the old Geelong Post Office, the house appears to be in good condition overall. However, the Barrabool sandstone wall construction has been overpainted.

The house at 240 Malop Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an Eclectic Late Victorian and Early Edwardian style. These qualities include the dominant gambrel roof form, together with the gable and side hipped convex verandah that project towards the street frontage, and the minor gable near the ridgeline that projects towards the side. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, Barrabool sandstone wall construction (but not the overpainting), corrugated profile to the roof cladding, two rendered chimneys with projecting cornices, modest eaves with paired timber brackets, round cast iron verandah columns with decorative capitals, decorative cast iron verandah brackets and timber framed cast iron valances having a rinceau pattern, tripartite timber framed double hung window under the projecting gable (including the sandstone mullions), timber framed window under the verandah, timber framed four panelled timber door (excluding the glazed panels) and sidelights and highlights, unpainted bluestone plinth, ornate timber bargeboards with cast iron infills at the ends, timber framed and cast iron flying gable infill, timber finials, and the projecting sandstone keystones above the tripartite window. The architectural significance of this house also relies on the retention of the neighbouring house at 242 Malop Street.The house at 240 Malop Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong in the late 19th century. In particular, this house has associations with the Geelong hotelier, Lawrence Ryan, who had it built in 1890-91 using Barrabool sandstone from the old Geelong Post Office that had been recently demolished. The house also has associations with the Geelong architect, Joseph Watts.

Overall, the house at 240 Malop Street is of LOCAL significance.

References

Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system, 1917, 1943, 1947, 1954, 1960, 1968, 1993.

Voters' Roll, Bellerine Ward, 1992, Geelong Historical Records Centre. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Geelong 1972, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

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

Geelong City Council Rate Books (Bellerine Ward), 1890-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Town Plan of Geelong 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Morrow, W. J. and Wynd, I., Hotels and Licensees, 1996.

Investigator, Journal of the Geelong Historical Society, March, 1989, & December, 1976, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Morrow, W. J., Index to the Geelong Advertiser, 2 July 1891, 26 September 1892, 10 June 1895, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Rowe, D. J., Architecture in Geelong, 1860-1900, Bachelor of Architecture Thesis, Deakin University, 1991, Sheet no. 240.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence