Sea View House (formerly Bay View House)
Address: 27 Hesse Street, Queenscliff
Period: 1864
Perhaps Sea View’s greatest contribution to the streetscape can be found in the landscaping: a mature Canary Island palm and a Moreton Bay fig. As the images indicate, the scale and massing of the fig tree especially does show remarkable connection to neighbouring architectures yet interrupts and softens the otherwise strict adherence of form built to the street boundary. Without these two significant trees, there would be a much more obvious streetscape transition between residential to the north and commercial to the south.
According to research undertaken by Lovell Chen architects, the different profiles in the timber cladding applied to each level may indicate the home had been completed in a number of stages.
The home was most recently sold in January 2012 for $1.55 million and has since had its façade painted white to replace the former shades of pink and cream.
(Lovell Chen Architects. ‘Individual Property Citation’, Queenscliffe Heritage Study, 2009).
Period: 1864
Perhaps Sea View’s greatest contribution to the streetscape can be found in the landscaping: a mature Canary Island palm and a Moreton Bay fig. As the images indicate, the scale and massing of the fig tree especially does show remarkable connection to neighbouring architectures yet interrupts and softens the otherwise strict adherence of form built to the street boundary. Without these two significant trees, there would be a much more obvious streetscape transition between residential to the north and commercial to the south.
According to research undertaken by Lovell Chen architects, the different profiles in the timber cladding applied to each level may indicate the home had been completed in a number of stages.
The home was most recently sold in January 2012 for $1.55 million and has since had its façade painted white to replace the former shades of pink and cream.
(Lovell Chen Architects. ‘Individual Property Citation’, Queenscliffe Heritage Study, 2009).
Photographs:
. ‘Queenscliff and Swan Island’, Rose Stereograph Co, ca. 1920-54 ----- This photograph is taken from the Vue Grand Hotel. The tree, middle-ground right, is the Moreton Bay fig belonging to Sea View House. (Image courtesy of the State Library of Victoria).
. ‘Sea View House’, with the Canary palm and Moreton Bay fig, 2015. (Copyright of the Nepean Conservation Group).
. ‘Queenscliff and Swan Island’, Rose Stereograph Co, ca. 1920-54 ----- This photograph is taken from the Vue Grand Hotel. The tree, middle-ground right, is the Moreton Bay fig belonging to Sea View House. (Image courtesy of the State Library of Victoria).
. ‘Sea View House’, with the Canary palm and Moreton Bay fig, 2015. (Copyright of the Nepean Conservation Group).
