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House, 32 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD

Location

32 Queens Avenue ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 32 Queens Avenue makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey, Victorian styled residential and tree-lined streetscape. The late Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The house at 32 Queens Avenue is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the residential developments in St. Arnaud in the latter 19th century, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a late Victorian style. These qualities include the generally symmetrical composition, single storey height, simple dominant hipped roof form and the bullnosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage and returns down one side. Other intact qualities include the green painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, ashlar block profile weatherboard cladding to the main elevation, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding to the secondary elevations, two unpainted brick chimneys with corbelled tops, narrow eaves with paired timber brackets, central doorway, flanking timber framed, triple light, double hung windows, cast iron verandah decoration (valances and brackets) and the turned timber columns.

Overall, the house at 32 Queens Avenue is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House