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Location

2 South Street, BELMONT Vic 3216 - Property No 238660

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 2 South Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design

qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant gable roof form,

together with a verandah gable and flat roofed bay window that project towards the street frontage. Other intact

qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, unpainted galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding,

wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed double hung windows arranged as a horizontal bank of three

under the verandah and as a flat roofed bay, double front timber and glazed doors, window leadlighting and the

decorative gable infill (shingling, panelling and battening).

The house at 2 South Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Jacobs Estate

subdivision of c.1925.

Overall, the house at 2 South Street is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCE

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

2. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1926-27, 1927-28, 1929-30, 1930-31, 1934-35, 1939-40, 1943-44, 1948-49,

1957-60.

3. Drainage Plans and Inspectors' Reports, 1930, Barwon Water Profis system.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House