House, 2 Golden Street, ST ARNAUD

The house at 2 Golden Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the 1920s and 1930s, and possibly with the original owner, the Coath family. The house also demonstrates original design qualities of an unusual interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the dominant gambrel roof form, together with the broken back verandah at the front. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall construction, two brick chimneys with simple cappings, central recessed entrance with a timber and glazed door, timber framed screen door and timber framed high and side lights, timber framed double hung boxed windows with highlights and arranged in banks of three, decorative timber fretwork verandah valance and brackets supported by timber columns, stuccoed brick pier and balustrade, capped timber balustrade and the concrete steps with flanking base walls and piers. The front hedge and other mature garden plantings also contribute to the significance of the place.

Overall, the house at 2 Golden Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House