"Lezayre"

The house at 126 Roslyn Road is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the central hipped roof with hipped and gabled roof forms that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, rendered brick chimney with a projecting capping, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed double hung windows arranged as projecting flat roofed bays, timber framed diamond shaped window , corner verandah porch with a gablet and skillion roof and supported by paired round concrete Doric columns face brick piers with concrete cappings, solid face brick balustrades with concrete cappings, bay window shingling and the decorative gable infill (panelling and battening).

The house at 126 Roslyn Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Jacobs Estate subdivision of c.1925.

Overall, the house at 126 Roslyn Road is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCE

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1928-29, 1929-30, 1932-33, 1934-35, 1936-37, 1938-39.

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

3. Jacobs Estate subdivision plan, c.1925, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

4. Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, 1949, Barwon Water Profis system.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House