House, 49 Canterbury Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

49 Canterbury Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 49 Canterbury Street makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey residential streetscape. The transitional Late Victorian and Federation style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the early 20th century.

The house at 49 Canterbury Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the early 20th century, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a transitional Late Victorian and Federation style. These qualities include the single storey height, dominant gambrel roof form and the return bullnosed verandah that projects towards the street frontages. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, galvanised roof ridge decoration, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, narrow eaves with timber brackets, panelling and paterae, timber framed double hung windows arranged in pairs, central four panelled timber door with side and toplights, and the turned timber verandah columns.

Overall, the house at 49 Canterbury Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House