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House - 'Vyalla', 43 Alma Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

43 Alma Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

File Number

SD/020

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

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SD 020 - House - 'Vyalla' 43

Statement of Significance

The house at 43 Alma Street makes a significant contribution to the streetscape of single storey, Victorian and Edwardian styled houses visually connected to it. This house appears to have been constructed in the mid to late 1890s, or more probably in the early years of the 20th century after the land on which it is located was subdivided along with other adjoining allotments in late 1899 or early 1900. The house appears largely intact from the exterior.

The house at 43 Alma Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the asymmetrical composition, the single storey height, the parallel hipped roof forms that traverse the site, the minor gable that projects towards the street frontage, the return bullnosed verandah that projects at the fronts and sides and the rear minor gable that projects at the side. Other intact qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, the modest boxed or lined eaves, the five unpainted red brick chimneys with corbelled tops, the timber framed double hung windows arranged as a projecting bay and as a triple-lighted bank on the main facade, the panelled timber door with high and sidelights, and the decorative features (timber gable bargeboards, decorative gable screen and turned timber finial, and the timber verandahs columns and elaborate cast iron brackets and valances).

The house at 43 Alma Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the residential developments in St. Arnaud in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular, this house is associated with Lot 7 of Section J3 that was sold to F.H. Crook in 1889, and with the later subdivision of the land under LP 4147, in late 1899 or early 1900.

Overall, the house at 43 Alma Street is of LOCAL significance.

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