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'Dundrennan', 2 Walker Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

2 Walker Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 2 Walker Street has significance as a relatively externally intact example of a Victorian styled brick villa in St. Arnaud. It was built for William Mogg and his wife, Grace, in 1884, to a design by a Mr. Marquand. William Mogg was a local solicitor.

The house at 2 Walker Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original and early design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with the return concave verandah and the rear gabled wing that traverses the site. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding (overpainted dark red), face brick wall construction, brick chimneys with multi-corbelled tops, modest eaves with timber brackets, timber framed double hung windows with shallow-arched heads, timber door case with four panelled timber door and side lights and transom, and the timber verandah columns and cast iron valances and brackets. The house at 2 Walker Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of substantial villa residences in St. Arnaud in the 1880s. In particular, this house has associations with the early St. Arnaud solicitor, William James Mogg and his wife, Grace, who had this house built in 1884 to a design by a Mr. Marquand. The house has further associations with the contractors, Kell and Edwards.

Overall, the house at 2 Walker Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House