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House, 33 Skene Street, STAWELL
Location33 Skene Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The house at 33 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 an intact example of a transitional Late Victorian/Edwardian style, being 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 33 Skene Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a transitional Late Victorian/Edwardian style. These qualities include the hipped roof forms, together with the hipped roof and bullnosed verandah that project towards the street frontage and returns along one side. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, brick chimneys with a multi-corbelled top, narrow eaves with timber brackets, timber framed double hung windows, front timber framed doorway with sidelights, timber verandah posts and the decorative timber verandah valance. The house at 33 Skene Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Overall, the house at 33 Skene Street is of LOCAL significance.
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House