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House, 760 Stuart Mill Low Road, STUART MILL

Location

760 Stuart Mill Low Road STUART MILL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

The homestead at 760 Stuart Mill Low Road, Stuart Mill, has significance as a moderately intact example of a 19th century farm in the area, with its Victorian styled house and 19th century timber outbuildings. Although the outbuildings are in poor and ruinous condition, the house appears to be in fair condition.

The house at 760 Stuart Mill Low Road is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Although altered during the interwar (c.1920s-1940s) period, it still demonstrates original design qualities of the Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with the return hipped convex verandah that projects at the front and side, and the gable that projects at the side. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, stuccoed and rendered wall finish, green painted galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, narrow eaves with paired timber bracket and rectangular panelling between, two rectangular face red brick chimneys with soldier course cappings (albeit of the interwar period), timber framed double hung windows, (including the paired windows at the front and the tripartite window under the side gable), central and elaborate doorway with its decorative timber framing, sidelights and highlights, decorative flanking doorway pilasters and fluted upper door surrounds accentuated by vermiculated panels, decorative timber bargeboards to the gable end and the blind oculus in the gable end.

The timber outbuildings are architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. They demonstrate original design qualities for 19th century vernacular farm structures including the gable roof forms, skillion wings, drop timber slab, weatherboard and horizontal timber paling construction, and the timber doors.

The homestead at 760 Stuart Mill Low Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with farming developments at Stuart Mill in the 19th century.

Overall, the homestead at 760 Stuart Mill Low Road is of LOCAL significance.

RECOMMENDATION: Given the ruinous condition of at least two of the outbuildings, these buildings should be photographically recorded prior to any future demolition.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House