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House, 19 Charlton Road, ST ARNAUD
Location19 Charlton Road ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The house at 19 Charlton Road, St Arnaud appears to have been constructed prior to 1871 as a typical nineteenth century gable cottage with front skillion verandah and to have developed over the early twentieth century to a larger house with gambrel roofed wings and wide verandahs. The house appears largely intact. The house at 19 Charlton Road is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Itdemonstrates original and early design qualities of a nineteenth century cottage with early twentieth century additions. These qualities include the asymmetrical composition, the single storey height, the gable and gambrel roof forms, and the verandahs. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the painted and lapped corrugated galvanised iron roof cladding, the painted brick and render walls, eaves brackets, the brick chimneys with corbelled tops, the timber framed double hung windows and rendered, tapered verandah columns. The house at 19 Charlton Road, is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the early owner, John Robinson and more particularly, with William Mitchell, Solicitor , whose association with the property resulted in the construction of the large additions in the early twentieth century. Overall, the house at 19 Charlton Road, is of LOCAL significance.
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House