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House at 19 Pearson Street
19 Pearson Street WILLIAMSTOWN, Hobsons Bay City
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House at 19 Pearson Street WILLIAMSTOWN, Hobsons Bay Heritage Study 2006
House at 19 Pearson Street WILLIAMSTOWN, Hobsons Bay Heritage Study 2006
House at 19 Pearson Street WILLIAMSTOWN, Hobsons Bay Heritage Study 2006
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Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

The house, constructed c.1957 by Murray Lovell, at 19 Pearson Street, Williamstown.

How is it Significant?

The house at 19 Pearson Street, Williamstown is of local aesthetic significance to the City of Hobson's Bay.

Why is it Significant?

Aesthetically, it is significant as perhaps the only example of a postwar Modernist dwelling in Hobsons Bay. The pavilion-style design and layout is highly evocative of this style, which illustrates influences of innovative domestic architecture by architects such as Robin Boyd at the time of its construction. (AHC criteria B2, E1 and F1)

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    • Physical Description 1

      House at 19 Pearson Street - Physical Description 1

      The house at 19 Pearson Street, Williamstown is a single-storey, detached, Modernist residence with a flat steel deck roof. Built on a concrete slab, it is rectangular in plan and its north elevation is a window wall and the remaining walls are Besser brick. The building is set back from its narrow street boundary by a double-carport. Internally, steel beams span between the two external walls (north and south elevations), extending past the window wall about one metre to form the house's eaves. A downpipe, formed from a hollow steel post, is mid-way along the north elevation's eaves. A mature garden is found along the house's northern boundary and at the rear of the property.

      Other significant or original elements include:

      - The distinctive form, which is characteristic of the period

      - Window wall

      - Siting

      - Steel beams

      - Downpipe

      - Rear and side garden

      - Internal partitions, fittings and fixtures

      - External light fittings

      Integrity

      House at 19 Pearson Street - Integrity

      External Integrity and condition

      Integrity - High. Condition - Good

      Physical Description 2

      House at 19 Pearson Street - Physical Description 2

      Context

      An isolated example of a postwar dwelling in a street of otherwise pre-war houses.

      Historical Australian Themes

      House at 19 Pearson Street - Historical Australian Themes

      Making Suburbs

      Physical Description 3

      House at 19 Pearson Street - Physical Description 3

      Associations

      Murray Lovell

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Hobsons Bay - Hobsons Bay Heritage Study

      Author: Hobsons Bay City Council
      Year: 2006
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