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House, 10 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD

Location

10 Queens Avenue ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 10 Queens Avenue makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey residential streetscape distinguished by some Victorian and Edwardian styled houses. The Victorian style of this house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The house at 10 Queens Avenue 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 Victorian style. These qualities include the symmetrical composition, single storey height, simple dominant hipped roof form, and the hipped bullnosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the dark red painted galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, brick (recently painted) chimney with a corbelled top and chimney base, narrow eaves with paired decorative timber brackets, central entrance with four panelled timber door and timber framed side and toplights, flanking timber framed, triple light, double hung windows, cast iron verandah decoration (valances and brackets), turned timber verandah columns and the timber verandah floor.

Overall, the house at 10 Queens Avenue is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House