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House, 6 Walker Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

6 Walker Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 6 Walker Street, St. Arnaud, has significance as one of the earliest brick houses with direct associations St. Arnaud's gold mining origins through Josiah Walker, early miner and Councillor. Although the house - which was built in 1860-61 - has experienced some changes, the form, construction and several details are largely intact.

The house at 6 Walker Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates some original or appropriate design qualities of a rudimentary Victorian style. These qualities include the simple gable roof form that traverses the site, together with the hipped bullnosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding overpainted dark red, face brick wall construction, two face brick chimneys with multi-corbelled and dentillated tops, modest eaves, timber verandah columns (but not pedestals) and cast iron valances and brackets.

The house at 6 Walker Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with some of the earliest residential developments in St. Arnaud as a result of gold mining in the area in 1860-61. In particular, this house has associated with Josiah William Walker, early miner who discovered and held Walker's Reef, and who built this house in 1860-61. Walker was one of St. Arnaud's first Councillors and although he left St. Arnaud in 1865 to return to England, he continued ownership of the property until at least the early 1900s. Walker completed a Bachelor of Medicine Degree and had a successful medical practice in London.

Overall, the house at 6 Walker Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House