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House, 8 Edwards Street, GLENORCHY

Location

8 Edwards Street GLENORCHY, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house, 8 Edwards Street, Glenorchy, has significance as a predominantly intact example of a Late Victorian style. Possibly built in the late 19th or very early 20th century, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.

The house, 8 Edwards Street, Glenorchy, is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Glenorchy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with the hipped ogee form verandah that projects towards the front. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, face brick chimney with a corbelled top, narrow eaves with paired timber brackets, timber framed doorway with sidelights, highlight and four panelled timber door, timber framed double hung windows, and the verandah details (timber columns and decorative brackets and valances).

Overall, the house, 8 Edwards Street, Glenorchy is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House