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| | Map | Street view | Nearby property price | | Planning History: | | | Registered as Victorian heritage | C Listed- Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 40 Grey Street, East Geelong, has significance as a predominantly intact example of a Late Victorian style. Built in 1897 for Frederick Westaway, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street. The house at 40 Grey Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with the bull-nosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the symmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, two rendered brick chimneys with projecting tops and terra cotta pots, narrow eaves, central front timber framed doorway with a timber panelled and glazed door and leadlighted sidelights, timber framed double hung windows, worked square timber verandah columns, decorative blind timber fretwork verandah valances that flank a timber Art Nouveau arch with curvy timber fretwork, and the capped timber verandah balustrade with a pattern simulating shingling. The front timber picket fence and gate also contribute to the significance of the place. The house at 40 Grey Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in East Geelong in the late 1890s. In particular, this house has associations with Frederick Westaway, driver and original owner from 1897, and with longtime owner, William Stevenson. Overall, the house at 40 Grey Street is of LOCAL significance.
References
References Reports and Drainage Plans, Barwon Water profis system, 1926, 1927, 1983. Sands & McDougalls Directory of Geelong, 1972, Geelong Historical Records Centre. Sands & McDougall "Invicta" Geelong Directory, 1968, Geelong Historical Records Centre. Geelong City Council Rate Books Ormond and Barwon Ward, 18961960. Geelong Town Plan 1881, Geelong Historical Records Centre |
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