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House, 29 McMahon Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

29 McMahon Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 29 McMahon Street, St. Arnaud has visual connections to other significant buildings in the street, notably the Victorian Early English Gothic styled Uniting Church, and the interwar Stripped Classical Masonic Hall. This house has significance as a highly intact example of the interwar Californian Bungalow style. It was possibly built in the late 1920s.

The house at 29 McMahon Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the early 20th century and it demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the gable roof form that traverses the site, together with the minor gable and verandah gable that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the tiled roof cladding, unpainted brick wall construction, timber framed windows arranged in banks of three having central lights flanked by double hung windows, corbelled brick window brackets, unpainted brick chimney with decorative cream brick corbelling, broad porch arch accentuated by red brick voussoirs, brick verandah balustrade with red brick decoration and a concrete capping, concrete verandah steps flanked by brick piers, red brick plinth and banding, wide eaves, and the gable infill (shingling and timber brackets). The unpainted brick and rendered fence also contributes to the significance of the place.

Overall, the house at 29 McMahon Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House