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House - 33 Alma Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

33 Alma Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Rec for other form of protection

Statement of Significance

The house at 33 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 in the first decade of the 20th century, and is largely intact from the exterior.

The house at 33 Alma Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the asymmetrical composition, the single storey height, and the dominant hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with the rear hipped roof at the side and the return bullnosed verandah that projects at the front and side. Other intact qualities include the red-painted galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, the modest boxed eaves with decorative brackets, panels and paterae, the three brick chimneys (recently painted), the recessed central doorway on the main facade with a 6 panelled timber door flanked by leadlighted sidelights, the triple light timber framed double hung windows, and the verandah decoration (turned timber columns and elaborate cast iron brackets and valances).

The house at 33 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.

Overall, the house at 33 Alma Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House