House, 22 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD

The house at 22 Queens Avenue makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey, Victorian styled residential and partly tree-lined streetscape. Although not designed in the more dominant Victorian style of the houses in this streetscape, this house is in accord with the scale, landscaping and setbacks of the significant houses and buildings visually connected to it. The transitional Federation and Inter-War Bungalow design of the house suggests that it was constructed in the early 20th century, probably in the 1920s.

The house at 22 Queens Avenue is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the early 20th century, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a transitional Federation and Inter-War Bungalow style. These qualities include the single storey height, dominant, recessed, gambrel roof form and minor gable that projects towards the Queens Avenue frontage. Other intact qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, unpainted brick and stucco wall construction, wide eaves with exposed rafters, unpainted brick chimney with cement rendered top, timber framed opening and sidelights, broad broken back verandah supported by double square timber columns on stuccoed brick pedestal, solid unpainted brick balustrade with a curved rendered concrete capping, and the shingling in the gable.

Overall, the house at 22 Queens Avenue is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House