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House, 3 Brisbane Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

3 Brisbane Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 3 Brisbane Street makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey residential streetscape. The Victorian style of this house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The house at 3 Brisbane 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 single storey height, dominant hipped roof form that traverses the site, and the return convex verandah that projects towards the street frontages. Other intact qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, two unpainted brick chimneys with rendered tops and terra cotta pots, narrow eaves with timber brackets, central entrance with four panelled timber door and timber framed side and toplights, flanking timber framed, triple light, double hung windows, and the cast iron verandah decoration (valances, brackets, and columns with decorative capitals). The house is associated with C. F. Lewis the editor of the St Arnaud Mercury newspaper.

Overall, the house at 3 Brisbane Streetis of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House