House, 43 Seaby Street, STAWELL

The house at 43 Seaby Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with the minor hipped roof and hipped verandah that project toward the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, painted galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, three rendered brick chimneys with projecting cappings, narrow eaves with worked timber brackets and decorative panels and patera between, timber framed double hung tripartite windows on the front facade, central timber framed doorway with a four panelled timber door and sidelights and highlights, square timber columns with decorative mouldings, and the decorative cast iron verandah valance. The front timber picket fence also contributes to the significance of the place.

The house at 43 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 Charles Alfred Akins, original owner, bookseller and stationer, councillor and active member of several community organisations in Stawell. Akins instigated construction of this house in the early 1890s.

Overall, the house at 43 Seaby Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House