House, 10 Inkerman Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

10 Inkerman Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 10 Inkerman Street makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey, Victorian styled residential streetscapes of Inkerman Street between Queens Avenue and Canterbury Street and of the adjacent Queens Avenue. The Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th centuries.

The house at 10 Inkerman 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 ogee form verandah which projects towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, narrow eaves, unpainted brick chimney (although altered), centrally located four panelled timber door with side and toplights, flanking timber framed, triple light, double hung windows and the verandah decoration (notably the cast iron valances and brackets, and the timber columns with projecting capitals).

Overall, the house at 10 Inkerman Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House