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House - 'Bronwyn', 25 Skene Street, STAWELL

Other Name

"Bronwyn"

Location

25 Skene Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

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SL 349 - House "Bronwyn", 25

Statement of Significance

"Bronwyn" at 25 Skene Street, Stawell, makes a significant architectural and visual contribution to the predominantly late 19th and early 20th century residential area. This house has significance as a reasonably intact example of a rudimentary transitional Late Victorian/Federation style in good condition when viewed from the street.

"Bronwyn" at 25 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 it demonstrates original design qualities of a rudimentary transitional Late Victorian/Federation style. These qualities include the recessed hipped roof form, together with the gable roofs that project towards the front and side, and the return verandah that accentuates the building corner. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, corrugated profile roof cladding, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, brick chimney with a multi-corbelled top, narrow eaves with timber brackets, panelling and paterae, timber framed double hung windows arranged in pairs, front timber framed entrance doorway, turned timber verandah columns with decorative arched timber fretwork valances, and the window hoods.

Overall, "Bronwyn" at 25 Skene Street is of LOCAL significance.

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