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House - 'Innersfree', 12 Silvermines Road, ST ARNAUD

Location

12 Silvermines Road ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 12 Silvermines Road, St. Arnaud, has significance as a reasonably externally intact example of a Late Victorian style. The design qualities of this house suggest that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The house at 12 Silvermines Road 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. Although partially altered, it still demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, the bullnosed verandah (front portion only), galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding and the semicircular ventilators. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, unpainted red brick chimney with a dentillated and corbelled top, interwar brick chimney with a soldier course capping, modest eaves with worked timber brackets, centrally located timber framed doorway having a four panelled timber door, sidelights and transoms, and the flanking paired timber framed double hung windows.

Overall, the house at 12 Silvermines Road is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House