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House, 46 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD

Location

46 Queens Avenue ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 46 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 or early 20th century.

Although partially altered, the house at 46 Queens Avenue is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the asymmetrical and double fronted composition, single storey height, recessed hipped roof form which traverses the site, hipped roof that projects towards the Queens Avenue fronting and the return bullnosed verandah that envelopes the main facades and side. Other intact qualities include the galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, ashlar block profile weatherboard cladding on the Queens Avenue facade, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, two white painted brick chimneys with corbelled tops, narrow eaves with timber brackets and panelling, and the cast iron verandah decoration (valances, brackets and round columns with pedestals and decorative capitals).

Overall, the house at 46 Queens Avenue is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House