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House, 32 Canterbury Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

32 Canterbury Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 32 Canterbury Street makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey residential streetscape. The rudimentary Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th century.

The house at 32 Canterbury Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the late 19th century and it demonstrates original design qualities of a rudimentary Victorian style. These qualities include the single storey height, double gable roof forms, and the convex verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, unpainted brick chimney with a corbelled top, very narrow eaves, two timber framed double hung windows symmetrically composed about a four panelled single timber door with a toplight, verandah decoration (valances and brackets) and the timber verandah columns.

Overall the house at 32 Canterbury Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House