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House, 59 Canterbury Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

59 Canterbury Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 59 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 century.

Although partially altered, the house at 59 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 some original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the double gable roof forms that traverse the site, and the galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding. The return bullnosed verandah has been introduced, possibly replacing a bullnosed verandah that originally projected towards the front only. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, the two brick chimneys with corbelled tops, narrow eaves, timber framed double hung windows and the central doorway.

Overall, the house at 59 Canterbury Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House