House, 25 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD

The house at 25 Queens Avenue makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey, Victorian styled residential and partly tree-lined streetscapes of Queens Avenue and of Inkerman Street between Queens Avenue and Canterbury Street. The Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th century.

The house at 25 Queens Avenue is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the late 19th century, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the generally symmetrical composition, single storey height, dominant hipped roof form clad in galvanised corrugated iron, and the return skillion verandah. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall construction, two unpainted brick chimneys with corbelled tops, narrow eaves with worked timber eaves brackets, panelling and paterae, symmetrically arranged timber framed, triple light, double hung windows, recessed central entrance with a four panelled single timber door, and the cast iron verandah decoration (valance and brackets, and round cast iron columns with decorative capitals).

Overall, the house at 25 Queens Avenue is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House