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House, 102 Main Street, GREAT WESTERN
Location102 Main Street GREAT WESTERN, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The house at 102 Main Street, Great Western, contributes to the significant, single storey, pitched roof central township area. The house also has significance as a reasonably externally intact example of a Late Victorian style. The design qualities of this house suggest that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century. The house at 102 Main Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Great Western in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and it demonstrates some original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the recessed hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with the gable roof and hipped verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding overpainted green, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, timber framed double hung windows, timber framed doorway, narrow eaves and the timber verandah columns. The front timber picket fence and scrolled metal gate also contribute to the significance of the place. Overall, the house at 102 Main Streetis of LOCAL significance.
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House