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House - 40 Alma Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

40 Alma Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

File Number

SD/018

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

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SD 018 - House - 40 Alma

Statement of Significance

The house at 40 Alma Street makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey residential streetscapes of Alma Street between Canterbury and McMahon Streets and of the intersecting Queens Avenue. Although not designed in the dominant Victorian style of these streetscapes, this house is in accord with the form, scale and setbacks of the significant houses visually connected to it. The Inter-War Bungalow style of the house suggests that it was constructed between the 1920s and 1940s.

The house at 40 Alma Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud during the Inter-War period, and it demonstrates original design qualities of an Inter-War Bungalow style. These qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, dominant hipped roof form, and the minor gables and broken back return verandah that project towards the street frontages. Other intact qualities include the terracotta roof tiles, unpainted brick wall construction, three substantial unpainted brick chimneys with soldier course cappings, wide eaves, timber framed double hung and fixed glazed windows that are arranged in horizontal banks of three and as a corner feature under the verandah, timber framed front doorway, round concrete Doric verandah columns, and the decorative gable infill (panelling and battening and ventilators). The detached, unpainted brick garage with its terracotta gabled roof also contributes to the significance of the place.

Overall, the house at 40 Alma Street is of LOCAL significance.

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