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House, 23 Butcher Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

23 Butcher Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The interwar Bungalow style of the house at 23 Butcher Street suggests that it was constructed in the early 20th century (c.1920s or 1930s). The modest design and detailing of the largely intact (from the exterior) house also indicates that the construction of the building formed part of the State Savings Bank of Victoria's financial, design, and construction scheme which operated in accordance with the Victorian Housing Act of 1920 and Credit Foncier System.

The house at 23 Butcher Street is architecturally and historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St Arnaud in the early 20th century, and with the State Savings Bank of Victoria's finance, design and construction scheme, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a modest interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the asymmetrical composition, the single storey height, the main hipped roof form, and the minor gable and hipped broken back verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, the horizontal weatherboard wall construction, the wide lined eaves with exposed timber rafters, the timber framed, double hung, box windows arranged in pairs with four paned upper sashes, the timber framed doorway with sidelight, the paired square timber verandah columns supported on painted brick piers, the extended verandah roof forming a window hood, the decorative gable infill (broken back shingling and brackets, and ventilator) and the simple timber window brackets to the box windows.

Overall, the house at 23 Butcher Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House