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House, 14 Kings Avenue, ST ARNAUD

Location

14 Kings Avenue ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 14 Kings Avenue, St. Arnaud, has significance as an intact example of an interwar Bungalow style established as part of the State Savings Bank of Victoria's financial, design and construction scheme. The design of the house suggests that it was constructed in the 1920s or 1930s.

The house at 14 Kings Avenue is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the jerkin head gable roof that traverses the site, together with the skillion verandah and flat roofed bay window that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, unpainted brick chimney, wide eaves, timber framed double hung windows with four paned upper sashes, boxed window construction, and the shingling about the lower reaches of the window bay.

The house at 14 Kings Avenue is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the early 20th century, and with the State Savings Bank of Victoria's finance, design and construction scheme.

Overall, the house at 14 Kings Avenue is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House