Residence

The house at 228 High Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. Apart from the recent window infill in the verandah, the house demonstrates original design qualities of the late interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include recessed dominant hipped roof form, together with a minor gable roof and verandah gable that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, two brick and corbelled chimneys with soldier course bands, wide eaves, timber framed double hung windows arranged as horizontal bank of three under the verandah and as a flat roofed bay, small rectangular leadlight window , rendered and square verandah pillars with concrete cappings and rendered piers with concrete cappings, solid rendered balustrade with a concrete capping, window leadlighting, bay window shingling, brick patterning on the verandah balustrade, and the decorative gable infill (brackets, shingling, stucco work and battening). The house also makes a significant contribution to the predominantly interwar and postwar Bungalow streetscape.

The house at 228 High Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Belmont Hill Estate subdivision of August 1911 and most likely with Eric Lyons, designer and builder.

Overall, the house at 222 High Street is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCE

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1934-35, 1935-36, 1936-37, 1937-38.

2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1956, 1971.

3. Belmont Hill Estate subdivision plan, August, 1911, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House