Residence

The house at 11 Regent Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the gable roof form that traverses the site, together with a minor gable and a vernandah gable that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, brick chimney, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed window arranged in horizontal banks of three with wider fixed central lights and flanking double hung windows, front timber and glazed? door and highlight, tapered verandah gable, gable brackets and the decorative gable infill (timber joinery simulating shingling, stucco work and battening).

The house at 11 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 11 Regent Street is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCE

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1919-20, 1921-22, 1925-26, 1926-27, 1927-28.

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, 1927, Barwon Water Profis system.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House