Residence

STATEMENT OF SIGNFICANCE

The house at 102 Swanston Street, Geelong, has significance as an intact and modest example of the interwar Bungalow style. Built in 1921 for Raymond and Amy Hobbs, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 102 Swanston Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the gable roof form that traverses the site, together with the central minor porch gable that slightly projects towards the street. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the symmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated steel room cladding, unpainted red brick chimney, wide eaves with exposed timber rafters, central recessed porch, slightly projecting bays with banks of three flat roofed, timber framed double hung windows, front timber framed doorway, decorative timber fretwork above the porch opening, timber gable ventilators and the timber porch gable brackets.

The house at 102 Swanston Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong during the interwar period (1920s-1940s). In particular, it has associations with Raymond and Amy Hobbs, original owners who instigated construction in 1921.

Overall, the house at 102 Swanston Street is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCE

Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system, 1928, 1972.
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 (Barwon Ward), 1920-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Town Plan of Geelong 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence