House, 58 Canterbury Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

58 Canterbury Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 58 Canterbury Street makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey residential streetscape. The Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th centuries.

The house at 58 Canterbury 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 symmetrical composition, single storey height, simple dominant hipped roof form and the hipped bullnosed 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 dentillated and corbelled top, narrow eaves with timber brackets, timber framed double hung windows, central four panelled timber door with side and toplights, cast iron verandah decoration (valances and brackets) and the stop chamfered timber verandah columns.

Overall, the house at 58 Canterbury Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House