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House and Former Shop, 104 Main Street, GREAT WESTERN

Location

104 Main Street GREAT WESTERN, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The former butcher shop, 104 Main Street, Great Western, contributes to the significant, single storey, pitched roof central township area. This building has significance as a relatively externally intact example of the Victorian style. The design qualities of this house suggest that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The former butcher shop, 104 Main Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with commercial developments in Great Western in the 19th and 20th centuries, and it demonstrates some original or appropriate design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the recessed hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with a skillion verandah and hipped roof store wing that project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, narrow eaves, timber framed, twelve paned double hung windows, central doorway with four panelled timber door under the verandah, and the 16 paned timber framed window and vertically boarded door on the front elevation of the projecting store wing. The front timber picket fence also contributes to the significance of the place.

Overall, the former butcher shop, 104 Main Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House