Residence

The house at 9 Dudley Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original and unusual design qualities of the Edwardian style. These qualities include the steeply pitched hipped roof that forms a verandah at the front. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, red brick strapped and corbelled chimney, exposed rafters under the eaves, timber framed double hung windows, worked timber verandah columns, timber verandah brackets and the curved fretwork valance.

The house at 9 Dudley Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Belmont Estate subdivision of October, 1910.

Overall, the house at 9 Dudley Street is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCE

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1910-11, 1911-12, 1914-15, 1920-21, 1922-23, 1923-24, 1924-25,1925-26.

2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1957, 1972. 3. Belmont Estate Subdivision plan, October, 1910, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

3. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1928, Barwon Water profis system.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House