House, 23 Scallan Street, STAWELL

The house at 23 Scallan Street, Stawell, has significance as a reasonably intact example of the Victorian style. Built as the Congregational Manse in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, the house appears to be in fair condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 23 Scallan Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, and with the neighbouring Congregational Church. It demonstrates original design qualities of the Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with the hipped bullnosed verandah at the front and the rear steeply pitched hipped roof wing. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the symmetrical composition, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, red-painted galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, timber framed double hung windows, narrow eaves, timber framed front doorway, stop chamfered timber verandah posts, decorative cast iron verandah valances and brackets, and the painted brick chimneys with corbelled tops.

Overall, the house at 23 Scallan Street is of LOCAL significance.