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House, 76 Main Street, GREAT WESTERN

Location

76 Main Street GREAT WESTERN, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 76 Main Street, Great Western, contributes to the significant, single storey, pitched roof central township area. This house has significance as a relatively externally intact example of a rudimentary Victorian style. The design of the house suggests that it was constructed in the second half of the 19th century.

The house at 76 Main Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Great Western in the 19th century, and it demonstrates some original or appropriate design qualities of a rudimentary Victorian style. These qualities include the simple gable roof form that traverses the site, together with the broken back skillion verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, two unpainted brick chimneys on the west side, square timber verandah columns, centrally located doorway with early four panelled timber door, and the two timber framed double hung windows.

Overall, the house at 76 Main Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House