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House, McLennan Street, MARNOO
LocationMcLennan Street MARNOO, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The house in McLennan Street, Marnoo, has significance as a moderately intact example of a Late Victorian style. Built in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, the house may have been relocated to this site, given its elevated status and absence of a brick chimney. The house in McLennan Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Although possibly relocated, the house still demonstrates some original/early design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with the front skillion verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the symmetrical composition, single storey height, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, narrow eaves with timber brackets and paterae with panelling between, central front timber framed doorway and flanking paired timber framed double hung windows, and the other paired timber framed double hung windows. The house in McLennan Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Marnoo in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular, this house has associations with the provision of medical services in the town in the 1920s and 30s. Overall, the house in McLennan Street is of LOCAL significance. RECOMMENDED LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: LOCAL
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
House