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House, 43 McMahon Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

43 McMahon Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 43 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 an intact example of the interwar Bungalow style. It was built by the owner builder, Clarence Preece, possibly in 1926.

The house at 43 McMahon Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the gable roof form that traverses the side, together with a broken back skillion verandah and minor ventilator gable that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the symmetrical composition, single storey height, broad tapered white painted brick verandah piers and bevelled timber beam, solid brick verandah balustrades with concrete cappings, solid brick balustrades and piers that flank the concrete steps, brick chimney, wide eaves, horizontal weatherboard dado and upper fibro cement wall cladding, lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, timber framed double hung windows arranged in horizontal banks of three, timber framed and glazed double doors, window and door leadlighting and the shingling in the ventilator gable.

The house at 43 McMahon Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the early 20th century, and particularly with Clarence Preece, owner builder, possibly from 1926.

Overall, the house at 43 McMahon Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House