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C listed - Local Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 248 Malop Street, Geelong, has significance as a moderately intact example of the Edwardian style. Built in 1900 for William Lloyd and a Mr Scott, the house has experienced some alterations and appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 248 Malop Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Although partially altered, it still demonstrates original design qualities of an Edwardian style. These qualities include the complex roof forms that include a recessed hipped roof, together with the projecting hipped return verandah, minor projecting verandah gable at the front and the squat tower with a hipped (pyramidal) roof. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the rendered brick wall construction, brick chimneys with terra cotta pots (but not the overpainting), modest eaves, front projecting rectangular bay with a central fixed window and flanking casements and highlights, bank of three timber framed double hung windows, other timber framed windows, side timber framed doorways, timber verandah columns, and the stucco panelling, timber battening and timberwork simulating shingling as gable infill and as cladding on the tower.

The house at 248 Malop Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong during the Edwardian (c.1890-1915) period. In particular, this house has associations with William Henry Lloyd, a gentleman of Herne Hill and a Mr Scott, original owners from 1900. By 1905, the house was owned by William Watts, a photographer of Elite Studios in Ryrie Street.

Overall, the house at 248 Malop Street is of LOCAL significance.

References

Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system, 1920, 1922, 1955, 1988.

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), 1900-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Town Plan of Geelong 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Investigator, Magazine of the Geelong Historical Society, March, 1979, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Group

Commercial

Category

Office building