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House - 'Kemsley', 2 Wimmera Street, STAWELL

Location

2 Wimmera Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

'Kemsley', 2 Wimmera Street, Stawell, has significance as an intact example of a Late Victorian style. Probably built in the late 19th or early 20th century, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.

'Kemsley', 2 Wimmera Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell in the late 19th century. The house also demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the central hipped roof form, together with the minor hipped roofs that project at the front and side, and the return verandah that accentuates the front corner. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding, painted brick chimney with a corbelled top, narrow eaves with timber brackets, stop chamfered timber verandah posts, decorative cast iron verandah brackets and valances, timber framed double hung windows and the timber framed doorway with highlight.

'Kemsley', 2 Wimmera Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular this house appears to have associations with Henry Clifford Bate, Mining Surveyor. Bate had this house built in 1890 by W. A. Whitford.

Overall, 'Kemsley', 2 Wimmera Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House