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House, 83 Main Street, GREAT WESTERN
Location83 Main Street GREAT WESTERN, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The house at 83 Main Street, Great Western, contributes to the significant, single storey, pitched roof central township area. This house has significance as a relatively externally intact example of a Victorian style. The design of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century. The house at 83 Main Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Great Western in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and although slightly altered, it demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, and the location of the front section of the skillion verandah. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, two brick chimneys with corbelled tops, narrow eaves, central timber framed doorway and the timber framed double hung windows. The front timber picket fence also contributes to the significance of the place. Overall, the house at 83 Main Street is of LOCAL significance.
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House