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House, 63 McMahon Street, ST ARNAUD

Location

63 McMahon Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 63 McMahon Street, St. Arnaud, forms part of a group of four single storey, pitched roofed Victorian and Federation styled houses. This house has significance as a relatively intact example of a modest Victorian style. The design of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th centuries.

The house at 63 McMahon Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and it demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with a hipped roof verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the symmetrical composition, single storey height, painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, painted brick wall construction, unpainted brick chimneys with cement rendered corbelled tops, modest eaves with timber brackets, central door opening with transom, timber framed double hung windows, stop chamfered verandah columns and verandah valance and brackets.

Overall, the house at 63 McMahon Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House