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House. 40 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD

Location

40 Queens Avenue ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 40 Queens Avenue makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey, Victorian styled residential streetscape. The Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th century.

Although partially altered, the house at 40 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 single storey height, simple dominant hipped roof form, together with a return bullnosed verandah that projects at the front and side (but not the verandah infill in the corner). Other intact qualities include the galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, the ashlar block profile and horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, two brick chimneys (one chimney is missing its early corbelled top), narrow eaves with paired timber brackets, early timber framed, triple light, double hung windows, and the central entrance with a four panelled timber front door and timber framed side and toplights. The two substantial palm trees at the front also contribute to the significance of the place.

Overall, the house at 40 Queens Avenue is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House