House, 30 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD

The house at 30 Queens Avenue makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey, Victorian styled residential and tree-lined streetscape. The late Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The house at 30 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 late Victorian style. These qualities include the generally symmetrical composition, single storey height, simple dominant hipped roof form and the hipped bullnosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage and returns down one side. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, two unpainted brick chimneys with corbelled tops, narrow eaves with paired timber brackets, central recessed entrance with four panelled timber door and timber framed side and toplights, flanking bays with timber framed double hung windows, cast iron verandah decoration (valances and brackets), and the turned timber verandah columns.

Overall, the house at 30 Queens Avenue is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House