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Location64 Sydney Parade, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 218348 LevelIncl in HO area indiv sig |
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Significant (Previously
C Listed - Local Significance)
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 64 Sydney Parade, Geelong, has significance as a
predominantly intact example of the Victorian style. Built in 1885 to
a design by the Geelong architectural firm of A.J. Derrick and Co. for
Frederick Hornsey, the house appears to be in good condition when
viewed from the street. REFERENCES: Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system, 1921,
1955.
The house at 64 Sydney Parade is architecturally significant at
LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the
Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form and the
concave verandah with central gabled portico that project towards the
street frontage. Other intact of appropriate qualities include the
symmetrical composition, single storey height, slate roof tiles,
galvanised corrugated iron verandah roof cladding, two rendered brick
chimneys with projecting tops, narrow eaves with worked timber
brackets and decorative panels, elaborate central timber framed
doorway with moulded timber architraves and ropework timber pilasters
that have decorative capitals, four panelled timber door, dentillated
timber door head, leadlighted sidelights and highlights, panelled
timber bases to the sidelights, elaborate timber framed double hung
tripartite windows having ropework timber pilasters with decorative
capitals, moulded timber architraves and small worked timber brackets,
round cast iron verandah columns with decorative capitals and
pedestals, decorative cast iron verandah valances and brackets,
ornamental timber verandah fascias, decorative cast iron verandah
gable infill and the turned timber finial that surmounts the gable
verandah.
The house at 64 Sydney Parade is historically significant at a
LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Geelong
in the second half of the 19th century. In particular, this house has
associations with Frederick Hornsey, member of the Independent Order
of Rechabites and original owner who instigated construction in 1885.
The house also has associations with the Geelong architectural firm of
A.J. Derrick and Co.
Overall, the house at 64 Sydney Parade is of LOCAL significance.
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),
1885-1960, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Town Plan of Geelong
1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
Morrow, W.J., Index to the
Geelong Advertiser, 1885, Geelong Historical Records
Centre.
Investigator, Journal of the Geelong Historical Society,
June 1984, Geelong Historical Records Centre.
D. Rowe,
'Architecture of Geelong 1860-1900', B. Arch. Thesis, Deakin
University, 1991.
Residential buildings (private)
Residence