Residence

The house at 9 Regent Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a transitional Edwardian and interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant hipped roof form, together with a gable roof and gabled and skillion verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, two tall corbelled brick chimneys with terra cotta pots, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed double hung windows, window hood supported by timber brackets, front timber and glazed door, front verandah, timber verandah columns with worked brackets, capped timber picket balustrade, gable brackets and the decorative gable infill (brackets, stucco work and battening).

The house at 9 Regent Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the McCauley Estate subdivision of 19 April, 1913

Overall, the house at 9 Regent Street is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCE

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1922-23, 1924-25, 1925-26, 1926-27, 1929-30.

2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1939, 1958, 1971.

3. McCauley Estate Subdivision plan, 19 April, 1913, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

4. Drainage Plans & Inspectors' Reports, 1928, Barwon Water Profis system.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House