House, 17 Main Street, STAWELL

Location

17 Main Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The house at 17 Main Street, Stawell, has significance as a predominantly intact example of a Late Victorian style. Possibly built in the late 19th or very early 20th century, the house appears to be in fair-good condition when viewed from the street.

The house at 17 Main Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof forms, together with the return bullnosed verandah. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, rendered brick chimneys, narrow eaves with timber brackets and rectangular timber panels, timber framed tripartite double hung windows, timber framed doorway with sidelights, stop chamfered timber verandah columns with projecting capitals, cast iron verandah brackets and the window hoods.

The house at 17 Main Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell in the late 19th or very early 20th century.

Overall, the house at 17 Main Street is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House