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House, 42 Skene Street, STAWELL
Location42 Skene Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The house at 42 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 Late Victorian style and appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street. The house at 42 Skene Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the recessive hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with the gable roof 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, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, brick chimneys with corbelled tops, narrow eaves with timber brackets, panelling and paterae, turned timber verandah posts and timber fretwork verandah valances, timber framed double hung windows (including the tripartite window under the verandah) and the timber framed front doorway. The front timber picket fence also contributes to the significance of the place. The house at 42 Skene Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell in the late 19th or early 20th centuries. Overall, the house at 42 Skene Street is of LOCAL significance.
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House