St. Arnaud Bowling Club, 1-9 Napier Street, ST ARNAUD

The St. Arnaud Bowling Greens are aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. They demonstrate important and intact visual qualities and features that include the large rectangular manicured grassed area, hedge to the west and a timber picket fence to the north. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the galvanised corrugated iron roofed shelter supported on timber posts, timber flagpole at the south-east corner, and perimeter seating.

The St. Arnaud Bowling Pavilion is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates important interwar design qualities that include the single storey height, horizontal weatherboard and fibro cement wall construction, hipped roof form and galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding painted green. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the wide eaves and exposed timber rafters, horizontal bank of fixed timber framed windows, timber framed double hung window and and other timber framed windows.

The St. Arnaud Bowling Greens and Pavilion are historically significant at a LOCAL level. They are associated with the reserve gazetted for 'Public Purposes' in 1873, with the decision to establish an 'Ornamental Garden' on the reserve (the present Queen Mary Gardens) in 1884, and more particularly with the Council's grant of a portion of the reserve to the St. Arnaud Bowling Club in 1885.

The St. Arnaud Bowling Greens and Pavilion are socially significant at a LOCAL level. They are recognised and valued by the St. Arnaud community for recreational reasons.

Overall, the St. Arnaud Bowling Greens and Pavilion are of LOCAL significance.

Group

Recreation and Entertainment

Category

Bowling Green