Residence

The house at 19 Herd Road is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the gable roof form that traverses the site, together with a minor gable and verandah gable that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the painted, lapped galvanised corrugated iron, weatherboard wall cladding, brick chimney, wide eaves, timber framed double hung windows arranged as a horizontal bank of three under the verandah and as a projecting flat roofed bay (with a central fixed light denoted by a bowed sash), front timber arnd glazed doors, projecting verandah gable with square fluted, concrete Doric columns and face brick piers with concrete cappings, window leadlighting and the decorative gable infill (brackets, stucco work, battening and shingling). The early woven wire fence, scrolled metal gates and early hedge make a substantial contribution to the significance of the place.

The house at 19 Herd Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with housing developments in Belmont during the intewar period.

Overall, the house at 19 Herd Road is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCE

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1928-29, 1929-30.

2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1957, 1972.

3. Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, 1929, Barwon Water Profis system.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House