House, 31 Silvermines Road, ST ARNAUD

Location

31 Silvermines Road ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 31 Silvermines Road, St. Arnaud, has significance as a reasonably externally intact example of a Late Victorian style. The design qualities of this house suggest that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.

The house at 31 Silvermines Road 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. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with the return bullnosed verandah. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, (overpainted in dark red paint), single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, unpainted brick chimney with a multi-corbelled top, altered unpainted brick chimney, narrow eaves with worked timber brackets and roundel motifs, central timber framed doorway with sidelights and transom, timber framed double hung windows, cast iron verandah valances and brackets, and the stop chamfered square timber verandah columns.

Overall, the house at 31 Silvermines Road is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House