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House, 27 Alma Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

27 Alma Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 27 Alma Street, St Arnaud,makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey, Victorian styled residential streetscapes of Alma Street between Canterbury and McMahon Streets, and of the intersecting Queens Avenue. The Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Although partially altered (due to the introduced verandah columns, concrete verandah floor and side carport), the house at 27 Alma Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and it demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the symmetrical composition, single storey height, simple dominant hipped roof form and an ogee form verandah that projects at the front. Other intact qualities include the galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, unpainted brick chimney with dentillated and corbelled top, small dormer ventilator, narrow eaves with paired timber brackets, centrally located front door with side and toplights, flanking timber framed, triple light, double hung windows and decorative cast iron verandah detailing (valances and brackets).

Overall, the house at 27 Alma Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House