Residence

The house at 29 Regent Street is aesthetically significant at at LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant gable roof form, together with a minor gable and flat roofed bay window, and a verandah gable that all project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, rendered brick verandah pillars and piers with concrete cappings, bay window shingling, timber framed double hung windows (including horizontal bank of windows under the verandah), window leadlighting, gable panelling, joinery (including brackets), shingling, and the decorative rendered brick patterns on the verandah balustrade. The house also makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey residential streetscape.

The house at 29 Regent Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the housing developments in Belmont during the interwar period. It is also associated with Eric Lyons, designer and builder.

Overall, the house at 29 Regent Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House