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| | Map | Street view | Nearby property price | | Planning History: | | | Registered as Victorian heritage | C LISTED - LOCAL SIGNIFICANCE
The house at 26 Spring Street, Belmont, has significance as a one of few examples of a Victorian style and a rare physical legacy of one of only four known properties associated with the 19th century vineyard era in the locality. Built in c.1864 for Thomas Campbell, publican, the house was occupied between 1864 and 1870 by Thomas Cain, gardener, nurseryman and vigneron known locally as a celebrated horticulturist. It was later occupied by Edwin Butt, one-time curator of the Corio Cricket Ground (Corio Oval) in the 1870s. Overall, the house is in good condition and of moderate integrity, with the original form, composition, return verandah and some detailing clearly discernible.
The house at 26 Spring Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level (AHC D.2). It demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style that are clearly discernible. These qualities include the hipped roof (forming double hipped roofs at the rear), return ogee form verandah that projects towards the street frontage (north) and west side, narrow eaves with timber brackets and the four rendered brick chimneys with dropped cornices. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, asymmetrical composition (created by the return verandah), timber weatherboard wall cladding, corrugated sheet metal roof cladding, timber framed main doorway with sidelights and highlights and four panelled timber door, timber framed double hung single windows, surviving cast iron verandah brackets and valances, and the stop chamfered timber verandah posts. The house represents one of few known surviving Victorian dwellings first built in the 1850s or 1860s in the Belmont locality, and one of a small number of 19th century dwellings in Belmont. Other dwellings of the era include "Kardinia" in Riverview Terrace (a more substantial Victorian Picturesque Gothic dwelling), "Karrama" at 80-84 Francis Street (with Federation era alterations and additions), house at 79 Mt Pleasant Road (with Federation era alterations and additions) and Winter's Cellars, 197 Francis Street, with surviving 1854 fabric and c.1878 Victorian timber dwelling.
The house at 26 Spring Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level (AHC A.4, H.1). It is one of the oldest surviving dwellings and a rare physical legacy of the vineyard era in Belmont from the 1860s. Only four properties associated with the vineyard era are known to survive in Belmont. Established by Thomas Campbell in c.1864 (at the time of the construction of the timber dwelling), the property was occupied until 1870 by a locally celebrated horticulturist, Thomas Cain. The property was also managed by Edwin Butt, one-time curator of the Corio Cricket Ground (Corio Oval). The property has further associations as a market garden during the late 19th and early 20th centuries with Alfred and Herbert Brame. The subdivision as the P |
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