Shop/Office

The C.J. Keane Estate Agents and Wine Justice building at 138-140 High Street is aesthetically significant at a REGIONAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a subtle interwar Spanish Mission style. These qualities include the crowning parapet capped with Spanish terra cotta tiles and interrupted by a raised chamfered corner that has a decorative arcuated band immediately under the tiled parapet capping. Other intact qualities include the sculptural plaster cartouche and surround that also interrupt the parapet, rendered brick construction, cornices and dentil work on the upper levels of the building, regularly-spaced brick corbels, pronounced corner with elongated pilasters having abstract capitals, single regularly-spaced timber framed double hung windows with six paned upper lights, blind arcade on the High Street facade, elegantly curved metal brackets supporting steel tension cabling to the cantilevered shop verandahs, and the timber framed and glazed corner door.

The C.J. Keane Estate Agents and Wine Justice building at 138-140 is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of the commercial shopping area in Belmont in the 1920s.

Overall, the C.J. Keane Estate Agents and Wine Justice building at 138-140 is of a REGIONAL significance.

REFERENCE

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1928-29, 1931-32, 1936-37, 1942-43, 1955-57, 1957-60.

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

3. M. Mecuri, historical information supplied to Kevin Krastins, City of Greater Geelong, 10 January 2005.

Group

Retail and Wholesale

Category

Shop