House, 67 McMahon Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

67 McMahon Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 67 McMahon Street, St. Arnaud, forms part of a group of four single storey, pitched roofed Victorian and Federation styled houses. This house has significance as a moderately intact example of a transitional Late Victorian and Edwardian style. The design of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The house at 67 McMahon 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 transitional Late Victorian and Edwardian style. These qualities include the gambrel roof form, together with the bullnosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, brick chimney with a multi-corbelled top, timber framed double hung windows, modest eaves and the timber ridge decoration.

Overall, the house at 67 McMahon Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House