Irish Cottages

Previously C Listed - Local Significance

The semi-detached cottage at 6 McCann Place, Geelong, has significance as an intact example of the Victorian Vernacular style. Built in 1914 for Anthony Kinnon, a traveller based in Melbourne, the cottage appears to be in fair-good condition when viewed from the street. It also now forms part of a significant duplex of semi-detached cottages. The semi-detached cottage at 6 McCann Place is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original and unusual design qualities of a Victorian Vernacular style for a turn of the century building, and conforms to the original design features of the 1854-55 Victorian vernacular styled cottage at 4 McCann Street. These qualities include the simple gable roof form that traverses the site, together with the rendered masonry parapets (excluding overpainting to one of the parapets) that form the gable ends and the rear skillion wing. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, symmetrical composition, unpainted light red-orange brick wall construction, rendered brick chimney, central flat-arched arched doorway with flanking flat-arched window openings, herringbone voussoirs above the door and window openings, rendered wall plinth, rendered window sills, timber framed double hung 12 paned windows on the main facade, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding on the rear skillion wing, and the timber framed double hung 8 paned windows on the rear skillion wing. The architectural significance of this semi-detached cottage also relies on the retention of the semi-detached cottage at 4 McCann Place, as both cottages form an unusual duplex. The semi-detached cottage at 6 McCann Place is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong in 1900 is an unusual surviving example of a building development that responded to the design qualities of the neighbouring semi-detached 1850s building. The cottage at 6 McCann Place has associations with Anthony Kinnon, traveller and owner from 1914 who instigated the construction of the dwelling and who also owned the neighbouring semi-detached cottage at 4 McCann Place from 1913. Overall, the semi-detached cottage at 6 McCann Place is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCES

Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system, 1922, 1935.
Application for property history APP40659, Lands Office, Marland House, Bourke Street, Melbourne.
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), 1854-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Town Plan of Geelong 1858, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Morrow, W., J., Index to the Geelong Advertiser, 1850-1866, p. 198.
Morrow, W. J. & Wynd, I., Hotels & Licensees of Geelong, pp. 32, 34,41, 47, 49

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Cottage