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House, 23 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD

Location

23 Queens Avenue ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 23 Queens Avenue makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey, Victorian styled residential and partly tree-lined streetscapes of Queens Avenue and of Inkerman Street between Queens Avenue and Canterbury Street. The Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th century.

Although partially altered, the house at 23 Queens Avenue is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the late 19th century, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the generally symmetrical composition, single storey height, simple dominant hipped roof form, and the return bullnosed verandah. Other intact qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, painted brick chimney with a corbelled top, narrow eaves with paired timber brackets and panelling, central recessed entrance with four panelled timber door and timber framed side and toplights, flanking timber framed, double hung, full length windows arranged in pairs, and the cast iron verandah decoration (valance, brackets, and round columns with decorative capitals).

Overall, the house at 23 Queens Avenue is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House