| Back to search results » | Back to search page » |
|
Former St. Arnaud Fire Station & Turncocks residence, 12 Napier Street, ST ARNAUD
Location12 Napier Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
|
Statement of Significance
The former Turncocks Residence & Fire Brigade Station, 12 Napier Street, St. Arnaud, has significance as an unusual, intact, rural fire station with attached Victorian residence. Constructed in 1883, the local fire brigade operated from this location until 1916. The building also has significance as one of an unusual grouping of former government and civic and public 19th and early 20th century buildings in a predominantly Victorian town, of which many are visually connected to the Queen Mary Gardens. The former Turncocks Residence & Fire Brigade Station is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the single storey hipped roof that traverses the site (the residence), together with a gable roof form that projects towards the street frontage (the fire brigade station). Other intact qualities include the originally unpainted brick wall construction, rendered and scored side wall construction, unpainted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, unpainted brick chimney with a corbelled top, narrow eaves, timber framed, double hung and two paned windows, four panelled timber door, arched vertically boarded double doors, timber verandah columns, cast iron verandah valances and brackets, timber flag pole finial, timber bargeboards, three courses of brick voussoirs forming the arched double door opening and the oculus ventilator. The timber picket fence, exotic street tree, standpipe and post box also contribute to the significance of the place. The former Turncocks Residence & Fire Brigade Station and site are historically significant at a LOCAL level. They are associated with the early development of the St. Arnaud Fire Brigade between 1883 and 1916. The building and site also have associations with the local Ambulance service, Kara Kara Shire, and the St. Arnaud and District Historical Society who continue to occupy and operate the building as a Museum to the present day. The former Turncocks Residence & Fire Brigade Station is scientifically significant at a LOCAL level. The locally made bricks illustrate a technological process no longer in practice. The former Turncocks Residence & Fire Brigade Station is socially significant at a LOCAL level. Although no longer used as a fire station or residence, the building is still recognised and valued by the community for its past role and for its current purpose as a historical museum. Overall, the former Turncocks Residence & Fire Brigade Station is of LOCAL significance.
Group
Utilities - Fire Control
Category
Fire Station