House, 33 Seaby Street, STAWELL

Location

33 Seaby Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 33 Seaby Street, Stawell, makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey, Victorian styled streetscape of Seaby Street and has visual connections to the Grampians ranges. The Late Victorian style of this house suggests that it was constructed in either the late 19th or early 20th century.

The house at 33 Seaby Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and although altered, it demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the complex roof form, with a central hipped roof, projecting rear gable, projecting front gable and return broken back verandah. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, asymmetrical composition, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, several unpainted brick chimneys with multi-corbelled and curvilinear tops, broad eaves, timber framed windows and timber verandah posts.

Overall, the house at 33 Seaby Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House