Shop, 1 Victoria Place, STAWELL

This property has been reviewed as part of the Stawell Main Street Precinct in 2024, and its heritage category is now Contributory.

The property is Contributory to the precinct.

Text from the 2004 heritage study: 

The Insurance Brokers building at 1 Victoria Place has significance as a reasonably externally intact and surviving example of a late 19th or early 20th century commercial building in Stawell. It appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.

The Insurance Brokers building at 1 Victoria Place is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with commercial developments in Stawell in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, and it demonstrates some original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with the chamfered building corner. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, green-painted galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, brick wall construction, timber framed double hung windows with rendered masonry sills, timber framed doorway, brick chimney with a corbelled top, narrow eaves and the quoinwork about the building corners.

Overall, the Insurance Brokers building at 1 Victoria Place is of LOCAL significance.