Belmont Median PriceThe House price is 5% higher than last year. Surrounding suburbsBelmont Median RentThe House rent is 2% lower than last year.
| Map | Street view | Nearby property price | Planning History: | | Registered as Victorian heritage | C LISTED - LOCAL SIGNIFICANCE The house at 13 Thomas Street is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. These qualities include the lapped, galvanised corrugated iron gable roof forms. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, wide eaves and exposed rafters, timber framed windows arranged in horizontal banks having central fixed lights with double hung windows at the sides, window hood and the decorative gable infill (panelling and battening). The flat timber picket fence and gate contribute to the significance of the place. The house at 13 Thomas Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with T.M. Burke's subdivision of the 1920s. It is also significant at as a house constructed by the War Service Homes Commission, a Commonwealth Government scheme of the 1920s to assist low income earners. Overall, the house at 13 Thomas Street is of LOCAL significance. REFERENCE 1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1929-30, 1930-31, 1931-32, 1932-33. 2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1957, 1972. 3. P. Cuffley, Australian Houses of the Twenties & Thirties, pp.15-16. 4. Drainage Plans, Inspectors' Reports and Certificate of Title,1931, 1954, Barwon Water Profis system. |
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