Residence

The house at 187 Roslyn Road is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the recessed dominant gable roof, together with two minor gables (including verandah) that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, wide eaves, timber framed windows, verandah columns? and unpainted tapered brick piers with concrete cappings, unpainted brick balustrade with concrete capping, soldier course banding on the balustrade and the decorative gable infill (brackets, shingling, roughcast panelling and timber battening).

The house at 187 Roslyn Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with farming in Belmont in the early twentieth century and with William Brebner, early owner of the land.

Overall, the house at 187 Roslyn Road is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCE

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1913-14, 1915-16, 1916-17, 1917-18, 1918-19, 1919-20, 1921-22, 1922-23, 1925-26, 1926-27, 1927-28, 1928-29, 1931-32, 1932-33, 1933-34, 1935-36, 1938-39, 1940-41, 1942-42, 1943-44, 1947-48, 1948-49, 1955-57, 1957-60.

2. Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, and Certificate of Title, 1963, Barwon Water Profis system.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House