House, 125 Main Street, GREAT WESTERN

Location

125 Main Street GREAT WESTERN, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 125 Main Street, Great Western, has significance has a reasonably externally intact example of a Late Victorian style. The design of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The house at 125 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 although altered, it still demonstrates some original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with the gable roof and the bullnosed verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, unpainted brick chimney, narrow eaves and the timber framed doorway.

Overall, the house at 125 Main Street, Great Western,isof LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House