House, 16 Seaby Street, STAWELL

The house at 16 Seaby Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with the concave verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the front timber wall construction simulating ashlar block masonry, horizontal weatherboard wall construction, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, three rendered brick chimneys with multi-corbelled tops, modest eaves with worked timber brackets and incised panels and roundels, central doorway with side and highlights, four panelled timber door, two banks of a timber framed, double hung, tripartite windows, with the central windows being larger, other timber framed double hung windows, cast iron verandah columns with decorative capitals, and the cast iron verandah brackets and valances. The Norfolk pine tree at the front also contributes to the significance of the place.

The house at 16 Seaby Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell in the late 19th century. In particular, this house has associations with Thomas J. Wright and his wife, who instigated construction in 1890. Wright was a successful timber and iron merchant, being in business as Wright and Pawsey, then Wright Pawsey and Mitchell and from 1901 as Messrs. T.J. Wright and Co. Wright's store was destroyed by fire after his death in 1914. This house also has associations with the architect, W.G. Kell, and with Messrs. Dimaline and Walker, builders.

Overall, the house at 16 Seaby Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House