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House, 30 Childe Street, STAWELL

Location

30 Childe Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 30 Childe Street, Stawell, has significance as a highly intact example of a modest interwar Bungalow style. Although no historical details have been ascertained, the interwar Bungalow design suggests that it was constructed between the 1920s and the 1940s. The house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 30 Childe Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell during the interwar period (1920s-1940s). It also demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar Bungalow style.These qualities include the gable roof form that traverses the site, together with the verandah gable that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding, painted/rendered brick chimney with a concrete capping, wide eaves with exposed timber rafters, paired timber verandah columns, timber weatherboard-clad verandah piers, capped timber verandah balustrade, timber framed double hung windows arranged in banks of the three, panelled timber door with upper glazed panel and sidelight, and the window hood.

Overall, the house at 30 Childe Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House