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House, 39 Bowen Street, ST ARNAUD
Location39 Bowen Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The house at 39 Bowen Street makes a significant contribution the predominantly single storey, Victorian and Edwardian styled streetscape in this section of the street. The Late Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed around the turn of the 20th century, or more probably after the land on which it is located was subdivided along with other adjoining allotments in late 1899 or early 1900. The house at 39 Bowen Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. The house demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the simple dominant hipped roof form that traverses the site, and the bullnosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, the brick chimneys with corbelled tops, the modest boxed eaves, the timber framed double hung windows, the four panelled timber door with sidelights, the turned timber verandah columns, the elaborate cast iron verandah valances and brackets, and the other verandah decoration including the distinctive central gablet which shows a curvilinear eastern influence in its design and has a faux shingled timber infill. The site at 39 Bowen Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular, this site is associated with part of Lots 1 and 2 of Section J3 that were sold to F. H. Crook in 1890, and with the later subdivision of the land under LP 4147, in late 1899 or early 1900. Overall, the house at 39 Bowen Street is of LOCAL significance.
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House