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25830 Goldsworthy Road Heritage Area

Statement of Significance

Goldsworthy Road Heritage Area comprises a substantial group of Federation residences that predominantly demonstrate a similarity of design and detail of the later Bungalow style, with the fine examples at 16, 18 and 20, all developed by the Irvine family; namely Captain Irvine and his daughters Pearl and Jessie respectively, in 1909, following their residences at Nos 2. and 4 in 1905, noting considerable improvements to the detail of the similar designed places. Overall the group forms a cohesive cultural environment of quality residences of the ‘Federation’ period.

Physical Description

Single storey painted brick. The expansive clay tiled roof is hipped with gablet vents on the ridge, and feature gables on the front and side with a continuous break pitch roof over the verandahs. The main gable frontage has a pair of double hung windows with a timber bracketed tiled awning over. Under the verandah are casement windows that wrap the corner. The verandah is supported by square timber posts with a spaced vertical timber valance. The tall square chimneys have clay pots. High brick fence to front and side boundary.

History

The majority of places in the Goldsworthy Road Heritage Area were constructed during the ‘Consolidation’ period. Occupation of Goldsworthy Road is however older being first developed during the ‘Gentry Village’ period which had two foci, one of which was the area between Freshwater Bay and Stirling Highway west of Goldsworthy Road and east of Bayview Terrace. Three households can be identified on Goldsworthy during this period and two of these (Nos.10 & 12) are within the Goldsworthy Road Heritage Area. By 1903 the number of residences had increased to fifteen. By the end of the ‘Consolidation’ period (1915) there were twenty six houses on the street.

The ‘Consolidation’ period was a period of rapid growth within the town. Population and housing grew steadily with 701 households or businesses in 1905, 872 in 1910 and 1,240 in 1915. The largest area containing houses of this period is the area bounded by Mary, Gugeri, Melville and Loch Streets and Stirling Highway. Surviving heritage homes from this period indicate that housing types were mainly Federation Bungalow and Federation Queen Anne with three to five rooms.

Captain James Irvine and his daughters Jessie and Pearl had considerable interest in the original developments of the residences at Nos. 2, 4, 16, 18, and 20.

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