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Former Preece House, 54 McMahon Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

54 McMahon Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The former Preece House, 54 McMahon Street, St. Arnaud, forms part of a group of buildings related to the Preece family building, decorating and undertaking businesses. This house has significance as a relatively intact example of a modest Victorian style.

The former Preece House, 54 McMahon Street is 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 hipped roof form, together with a hipped roof verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the symmetrical composition, single storey height, painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, painted masonry wall construction, painted brick chimneys with corbelled tops, modest eaves with paired timber brackets, central door opening with transom and sidelights, timber framed double hung windows, stop chamfered verandah columns and verandah valance and brackets.

The former Preece House, 54 McMahon Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the Preece family who operated the adjacent buildings as a building, decorating and undertaking business. Members of the Preece family were local councillors over the period 1923 to 1951. They were also associated with the nearby Anglican church.

Overall, the former Preece House, 54 McMahon Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House