House, 35 North Western Road, ST ARNAUD

Location

35 North Western Road ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 35 North Western Road, St. Arnaud, has significance as a predominantly externally intact example of a transitional Late Victorian/early Edwardian style. The design qualities of this house suggest that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The house at 35 North Western Road 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/early Edwardian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with a minor hipped roof and return convex verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, unpainted red brick chimney with a multi-corbelled top, modest eaves with timber brackets, stop chamfered timber verandah columns, cast iron verandah valances and brackets, timber framed double hung tripartite windows at the front, single timber framed double hung windows at the side, and the front timber framed doorway, four panelled timber door and sidelight.

Overall, the house at 35 North Western Road is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House