House, 22 North Western Road, ST ARNAUD

The house at 22 North Western Road is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the early 20th century (1920s-1930s) and it demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Californian. Bungalow style. These qualities include the major gable roof form, together with a verandah gable that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the single storey height, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, two early elongated painted brick chimneys with projecting concrete cappings, wide eaves, projecting flat roofed bay window at the front to one side, projecting rectangular door bay under the verandah, timber framed double hung windows with decorative leadlighting in the upper sashes, boxed timber framed double hung side windows, small boxed timber framed leadlight window, timber window brackets, timber framed doorway with transoms and leadlighted sidelight, timber verandah columns (with simple decorative timber brackets) supported by stuccoed brick piers with concrete cappings, stuccoed brick verandah balustrade with concrete cappings, and the decorative gable infill (battening and panelling and ventilators).

Overall, the house at 22 North Western Road is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House