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House, 4 Skene Street, STAWELL

Location

4 Skene Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 4 Skene Street, Stawell, makes a significant architectural and visual contribution to the predominantly late 19th and early 20th century residential area. This house also has significance as a reasonably externally intact example of the Late Victorian style. Although the construction date for the house is not known, its style suggests that it was built in the late 19th or early 20th century. The house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 4 Skene 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 from 1930 it has associations with the Frost family. The house also demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with the hipped bullnosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, narrow eaves with timber brackets, paterae and panelling, decorative cast iron verandah valances and brackets, central projecting arch in the verandah roof adorned with decorative cast iron, central timber framed doorway with four panelled timber door and narrow sidelights, and the flanking timber framed double hung tripartite windows.

Overall, the house at 4 Skene Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House