Boot Room

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The Boot room at the Barwon Heads Jetties I the Barwon Heads Park 7-71 Ewing Blyth Drive is aesthetically significant at the LOCAL level. It demonstrates original qualities of the Late Victorian Vernacular style which includes the gable roof form, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, fixed timber framed nine-light window on the western gable, and decorative moulded timber windows architrave. Other intact qualities include the beaded timber door with the timber frame and the exposed timber rafters under the eaves.

The Boot Room at the Barwon Heads Jetties in the Barwon Heads Park, 7-71 Ewing Blyth Drive is historically significant at a REGIONAL level. It is associated with the revolution of maritime activities on the township of Barwon Heads since the 1890's.

Overall, the Boot Room at the Barwon Heads Jetties at 7-71 Ewing Blyth Drive in the Barwon Heads Park is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCES

See Record Sheet for the Barwon Heads Jetties and Co-operative Sheds, Barwon Heads Park Trust Minute Books, 1889-1918 and Geelong Advertiser, 4 February, 1889.

D Catrice, 'Fishermens' Co-operative Buildings - Historic Places Interim Assessments' September 1997, prepared by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, in the collection of Barwon Coast Committee of Management Inc.

Telephone interview by David Rowe with Mr Len Stephens, former member of the Barwon Heads Fishermens' Co-operative, 26 July, 1999.

Barwon Heads Park Trust Minute Books, 1923-49, in the collection of the Barwon Coast Committee of Management Inc.

Group

Maritime Industry

Category

Boat Building