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House, 8 Skene Street, STAWELL

Location 8 Skene Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE Level Rec for HO area contributory

[1/1] SL 336 - House, 8 Skene

Statement of Significance

The house at 8 Skene Street, Stawell, is historically and architecturally significant at a CONTRIBUTORY level. It makes a significant architectural and visual contribution to the predominantly late 19th and early 20th century residential area, and demonstrates some important or appropriate design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the double gabled roof form that traverses the site, together with the hipped roof wing and hipped bullnosed verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, timber framed double hung windows, timber framed front doorway, stop chamfered timber verandah posts with moulded capitals, painted brick chimney at the side, narrow eaves and the galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding.