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House, 44 Skene Street, STAWELL

Location 44 Skene Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE Level Rec for HO area contributory

[1/1] SL 362 - House, 44 Skene

Statement of Significance

The house at 44 Skene Street, Stawell, makes a significant architectural and visual contribution to the predominantly late 19th and early 20th century residential area. It is significant at a CONTRIBUTORY level, being associated with residential developments in Stawell in the late 19th or early 20th century and it demonstrates some remnant and appropriate design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, recessive hipped roof form and the gable roof and bullnosed verandah that project towards the street frontage, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, face red brick chimney, narrow eaves with timber brackets, panelling and paterae, timber framed double hung windows, timber framed front doorway with sidelights, turned timber verandah posts and the decorative cast iron verandah valances and brackets.