"Claremont"

Location

28 Seaview Parade, BELMONT VIC 3216 - Property No 238182

Level

Incl in HO area contributory

Statement of Significance

C Listed - Local Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The house at 28 Seaview Parade is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Bungalow style which include the dominant hipped roof and projecting gables, forming a triple fronted design. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, red brick chimney, return verandah supported by worked timber posts with decorative timber brackets, wide eaves with exposed rafters, window hoods with decorative timber brackets and the eight paned, timber framed double hung windows. The early garden, pathway and post and wire fence contribute to the significance of the place. The house also makes a contribution to the predominantly single storey residential streetscape.

The house at 28 Seaview Parade is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the subdivision of part of Alexander Thomson's "Kardinia" farm into the Kardinia Extended Estate, Section 4.

Overall, the house at 28 Seaview Parade is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House