Residence

Location

266 High Street, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 229413

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

C Listed - Local Significance

The house at 266 High Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant and recessed hipped and gabled roof that traverses the site, together with a minor gable and flat roofed verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, unpainted brick chimney, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed double hung windows arranged as banks of three on the street facade with their upper lights being six and four paned, front timber and glazed door and sidelights, window hood (extension of verandah), square timber verandah posts with decorative curved timber brackets, capped timber balustrade, and the decorative gable infill (shingling and ventilator).

The house at 266 High Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Belmont Hill Estate subdivision of 1911.

Overall, the house at 266 High Street is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCE

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

2. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1918-19, 1919-20, 1920-21, 1923-24, 1927-28, 1931-32, 1936-37, 1942-43, 1955-57, 1957-60.

3. Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, 1960, Barwon Water Profis system.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House