Residence

The house at 44 Mount Pleasant Road is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the Federation style. These qualities include the dominant gable roof form that traverses the site, together with minor gables that project to the sides and street frontage, and a recessed return verandah formed under a projecting gable. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, worked timber verandah posts with elaborate timber fretwork, timber framed double hung windows, window hood with worked timber brackets, oculus window, window leadlighting, rendered chimneys with intricate pots, and the decorative gable infill (stucco, battening and brackets). The timber picket fence at the front contributes to the significance of the place. The house also makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey Edwardian and interwar Californian Bungalow streetscape.

The house at 44 Mount Pleasant Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the subdivision of part of Alexander Thomson's "Kardinia" farm into the Kardinia Extended Estate.

Overall, the house at 44 Mount Pleasant Road is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCE

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1914-15, 1923-24, 1927-28.

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

3. I. Wynd, 'Environmental History: Greater Geelong Outer Areas Heritage Study', vol.2.

4. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1927, Barwon Water Profis system.

5. Kardinia Extended Estate Subdivision Plan, 24 October, 1891, B5/100, Geelong Historical RecordsCentre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residence