Residence

The house at 14 Park Street, Geelong, has significance as a predominantly intact example of the Late Victorian Italianate style. Built in 1897 for Matthew Kerr, lecturer/instructor at the Gordon Institute of Technology, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 14 Park Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian Italianate style. These qualities include the recessed hipped roof form, together with the projecting conical roof form and bull-nosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage and encircles the projecting bay. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, grey-painted galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, three highly elaborate unpainted brick chimneys with rendered strapping, pedimented mouldings and terra cotta pots, narrow eaves with worked timber brackets, timber framed double hung windows forming the projecting bay and as single windows at the front and sides, rendered orb-like finial surmounting the conical roof, timber verandah columns with decorative moulded capitals, decorative cast iron verandah brackets and timber verandah fretwork valances.

The house at 14 Park 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 Matthew Kerr, lecturer/instructor at the Gordon Institute of Technology and original owner from 1897.

Overall, the house at 14 Park Street is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCES

Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system, 1989.
Voters' Roll, Bellerine Ward, 1992, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Electoral Roll, Division Corio, Subdivision Geelong, 1984, 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), 1896-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Town Plan of Geelong 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Morrow, W., J., Index to the Geelong Advertiser, 29 September, 1897. 1 September, 1898.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence