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Villa

Location 10 Seaby Street,, STAWELL VIC 3380 - Property No B4923 File Number B4923 Level Local

[1/2] B4923 10 Seaby Street [2/2] B4923 10 Seaby Street

Statement of Significance

No 10 Seaby Street, Stawell is a substantial and richly decorated villa constructed in 1890 for the wealthy mine-owner Mary Ellen Hobbs, widow of philanthropist William Hobbs. The exterior of the house presents two fine elevations with brick work enhanced by elaborate window hoods, quoins and a vernadah with paired pillars and encaustic tiles. Inside the house, the conventional disposition of the front formal rooms give way to a substantial rear section which runs transversely.
The interior of the house is of particul ar interest for its surviving decoration. It includes relatively sumptuous doorways, extensive and finely executed wood-graining, an unusual imitation panel timber dado, original light fittings and some surviving papers. Handsome door furniture and coloured/stained glass complete the impression of a richly finished interior appropriate to a wealthy landowner in Stawell at the height of the boom period.
The house is accordingly unusually intact and distinctive, although the front fence has been lost. At the rear, the surviving timber stables are of interest.
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