Residence

The house at 32 Thomson Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the Federation style. These qualities include the recessed, main hipped roof form, together with a gable that projects to the side (north), and a gable and broken-back verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, tall red brick chimney with a terra cotta pot, wide overhangs and exposed rafters, timber framed casement windows with high lights, and the decorative gable infill (shingling, stucco, battening and fretwork). The house also makes a significant contribution to this section of the predominantly Federation and interwar residential streetscape.

The house at 32 Thomson Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It it associated with the Kiddle Estate Subdivision of 1906 and the Belmont Heights Subdivision of 1913.

Overall, the house at 32 Thomson Street is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCES

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1912-13, 1913-14, 1914-15.

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

3. Pescott, South Barwon 1857-1985, p.45, 46.

4. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1927, Barwon Water Profis system.

5. Brownhill and Wynd, History of Geelong and Corio Bay With Postscript, p.131, 550.

6. Belmont Heights Estate Subdivision plan, 6 December, 1913, Geelong Historical Records Centre.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House