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House, 34 Seaby Street, STAWELL

Location

34 Seaby Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 34 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.

Although altered, the house at 34 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 it demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style.These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with a minor hip that projects towards the street frontage and a return convex verandah roof that projects at the front and side. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall construction, painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, rendered brick chimney with projecting cornice, narrow eaves, timber framed double hung windows (including the tripartite windows at the front), front timber framed doorway has early side and high lights, four panelled timber door and the timber verandah floor boards. The substantial palm tree at the front also contributes to the significance of the place.

Overall, the 34 Seaby Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House