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House, 15 Childe Street, STAWELL

Location

15 Childe Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 15 Childe Street, Stawell, has significance as an unusual and predominantly intact example of an interwar Bungalow style. Possibly built between the 1920s and 1940s, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 15 Childe Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the broad and steeply pitched hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with the minor gables and the attic gable that project towards the street frontages. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, elevated predominantly single storey height (with attic space), tiled roof cladding, cream brick wall construction, two elongated cream brick chimneys, wide eaves, verandah formed under the main roof fronting Childe Street supported by round tapered concrete columns and cream brick piers, narrow tiled window hood, banks of timber framed double hung windows, timber framed doorway and the decorative gable infill (ventilators and brown brick horizontal patterning). The front brick fence also contributes to the significance of the place.

The house at 15 Childe Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell during the interwar (c.1920s-1940s) period. In particular, this house appears to have been built by a Mr. Maher.

Overall, the house at 15 Childe Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House