HOUSE

The house at 545 Napier Street White Hills comprising a timber Edwardian house built between 1911 and 1915 is significant. 

The house at 545 Napier Street built between 1911 and 1915 by G Piccoli is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Greater Bendigo. 

The house of 545 Napier Street, owned until 1910 by Scottish migrant and White Hills post office proprietor, George Souter Butter and later by G Piccoli, is significant. Butter’s activities in White Hills included acting as Trustee of the White Hills cemetery and the Presbyterian church; and his multiple landholdings indicate his wealth and standing in the community. (Criterion A)

545 Napier Street is part of a group of exceptionally fine late Victorian/Edwardian residences in White Hills. These places display architectural qualities in form and ornamentation that indicate design origins from prominent Bendigo architects such as the ‘school of’ William Beebe and W C Vahland.

545 Napier Street is characteristic of the high quality late Victorian and Edwardian housing development that spread to White Hills in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The house at 545 Napier Street is significant for its high level of integrity and representation of Edwardian residential architecture. This is expressed through its layout of a central square hipped roof with extended wings and a return verandah. The house is notable for its high level of decoration including metal roof ridging, leaded glass casement windows, turned verandah posts, eaves detail and in particular the fine quality of the cast iron frieze with integrated brackets. The fence is not significant. (Criterion E)