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House, 3 Queen Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

3 Queen Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The rudimentary Victorian style of the cottage at 3 Queens Street suggests that it was constructed in the second half of the 19th century. Largely intact, the cottage is situated on original Lot 13 of Section 12 that had been purchased by T. Bray in 1898 but the site may have been under an early mining lease and sold by the Crown at this later date with the house already erected.

The cottage at 3 Queens Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the second half of the 19th century, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a rudimentary Victorian style. These qualities include the single storey height, the simple gable roof form that traverses the site, the rear skillion wing and the skillion verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the green-painted galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, the timber verandah floor, the timber framed double hung windows symmetrically arranged about a central doorway and the timber verandah columns.

Overall, the cottage at 3 Queens Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House