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House, 37 Seaby Street, STAWELL
Location37 Seaby Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The house at 37 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. This house was built in c.1870 for Francis T. Layzell, local watchmaker and jeweller. Although the front verandah has recently been introduced, the house is largely externally intact. The house at 37 Seaby Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian Picturesque style. These qualities include the gable roof form that traverses the site, together with a gable roof form and bullnosed verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, brick wall construction, painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, two rendered brick chimneys with projecting cornices, narrow eaves, decorative timber bargeboards and finial, parapeted bay window, lancet ventilator in the gable end, timber framed double hung windows, timber framed doorway with side and high lights, and the introduced bullnosed verandah supported by square timber columns with decorative timber brackets. The house at 37 Seaby Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell during the prosperous years of the gold rush in the late 1860s and 1870s. In particular, this house has associations with Francis T. Layzell, original owner and watchmaker, jeweller and silversmith, who instigated construction in c.1870. Overall, the house at 37 Seaby Street is of LOCAL significance.
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House