| House | $754,400  |
| Unit | $458,300 |
| Land | $669,800  |
Surrounding suburbs
| Breakwater | $498,800 |
| Grovedale | $701,500 |
| Marshall | $643,600 |
| Newtown | $1,182,600 |
| South Geelong | $1,183,000  |
| House | $498 |
| Unit | $403 |
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| Map | Street view | Nearby property price |
| Planning History: |
| Registered as Victorian heritage |
| B Listed - Regional Significance The house known as Wanalla at 52 Mount Pleasant Road is aesthetically significant at a REGIONAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof and an ogee verandah with a central gabled entrance portico that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the weatherboard wall cladding, lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, cast iron verandah valance and worked timber posts, timber framed double hung windows with sidelights, four panelled front door with sidelights, window leadlighting, worked timber eaves brackets and the painted chimney. The timber picket front fence contributes to the significance of the place. The house also makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey Edwardian and interwar Californian Bungalow streetscape. The house known as Wanalla at 52 Mount Pleasant Road is historically significant at a REGIONAL level. It is associated with the subdivision of part of Alexander Thomson's "Kardinia" farm into the Kardinia Extended Estate. It is also associated with the Geelong architectural firm of Laird and Barlow, being one of their earliest designs. Overall, the house known as Wanalla at 52 Mount Pleasant Road is of REGIONAL significance. REFERENCE 1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1892-93, 1893-94, 1923-24, 1927-28. 2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1957, 1972. 3. I. Wynd, 'Environmental History: Greater Geelong Outer Areas Heritage Study', vol.2. 4. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1927, Barwon Water Profis system. 5. Morrow Index to the Geelong Advertiser, 28 October, 1892. 6. D. Rowe, 'Architecture of Geelong 1860-1900', p.9. 7. Kardinia Extended Estate Subdivision Plan, 24 October, 1891, B5/100, Geelong Historical RecordsCentre. 8. Original drawings by Laird and Barlow, 1892 in the Geelong Historical Records Centre. 9. Telephone interview by David Rowe with Jim Duff, relative of the late Michael Duff, May 1999. |
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