Clydesville. 20 Gellibrand Street, Queenscliff

20 Gellibrand Street QUEENSCLIFF, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH

North Gellibrand Street Precinct

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Clydesville. 20 Gellibrand Street

Statement of Significance

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  • Physical Description 1

    Clydesville. 20 Gellibrand Street, Queenscliff - Physical Description 1

    Extract from the 1982 study

    John Nicholson, pilot, purchased Allotment Three, Section Four in August 1855 for 72 pounds.( I) By 1862, he had constructed a six roomed, verandahed timber house with a slate roof which faced Gellibrand Street.(2)

    John and William Nicholson were two of seven extra pilots who were engaged to man the brigatine Boomerang which was stationed at the Heads in January 1853 and inaugurated the outside cruising station. The Nicholson's became part of Number One company of pilots who later acquired Corsair, the fonner cutter from the Royal Yacht Squadron.(4)

    Nicholson carried out improvements to Clydesville during 1869-70(4) and retained the house until 1883 when he sold to Charles Troedel, the Melbourne printer and lithographer(s) who had leased the house since 1882.

    Charles Troedel, who was born in Hamburg, was brought to Melbourne in 1860 by printer A.W. Schuhkrafft with Robert Wendel as craftsmen for his business. Troedel and Wendel worked together on the Melbourne Album in 1863 probably when he acquired Clydesville. Artists Arthur Streeton, Lionel Lindsay and Nichalas Chevalier all worked for Troedel whose business eventually extended to Sydney when he took on Edward Cooper as a partner. Troedel died of cancer in 1906.(6)

    At the beginning of Troedel's ownership (or at the end of Nicholson's), the front of Clydesville was substantially added to. Adjoining the original timber, hipped-roof dwelling was built a stuccoed brick addition towards Gellibrand Street in the form of an asymmetrically planned, verandahed house and porch with pronounced vermiculated quoining and slated hip roofs. Subsequently Clydesville was leased to pilats such as Captain Robertson and finally sold to Dr. F.TD. Jermyn at the end of 1917.(7)

    The house has been both surrounded by garden and by ad-hoc additions in the years since but retains most of its original fabric, internally and externally, from its two eras of building. Clydesville possesses both local historic importance from its long association with pilot John Nicholson and statewide importance from its use as a summer house by Charles Troedel, the most distinguished of Melbourne's nineteenth century lithographers.(8)

    Physical Description 2

    Clydesville. 20 Gellibrand Street, Queenscliff - Physical Description 2

    Extract from the 2009 study

    Clydesville is a double-fronted single-storey rendered brick house set back from Gellibrand Street behind a deep mature garden on an elevated site. With Neptune Cottage (18 Gellibrand Street) and Caribou Cottage (22 Gellibrand Street) it forms a group of mid-Victorian dwellings in this part of Queenscliff. It has a hipped roof clad in slate tile. There is a projecting bay at the south end of the street-facing (east) elevation. A verandah, enclosed in the twentieth century, extends across the remainder of the facade. The generous site includes mature trees, including a large Holm Oak (Quercus ilex) at the front eastern corner of the property.

    Intactness

    Clydesville. 20 Gellibrand Street, Queenscliff - Intactness

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    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Queenscliffe - Queenscliffe Urban Conservation Study

    Author: Allom Lovell & Associates P/L, Architects
    Year: 1982
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    Queenscliffe - Queenscliffe Heritage Study

    Author: Lovell Chen
    Year: 2009
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