House, 12 Mill Street, ST ARNAUD
12 Mill Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 12 Mill Street makes a significant contribution to the single storey, Victorian styled residential Queens Avenue streetscape. The Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.
The house at 12 Mill Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the symmetrical composition, single storey height, simple dominant hipped roof form, and the hipped bullnosed verandah that projects towards the Mill street frontage. Other intact qualities include the galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, unpainted brick chimney with a corbelled top, narrow eaves with worked timber brackets, central entrance, flanking timber framed, triple light, double hung windows, and the cast iron verandah decoration (valances and brackets). The substantial palm tree in the front garden also contributes to the significance of the place.
Overall, the house at 12 Mill Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 12 Mill Street, ST ARNAUD - Physical Description 1
The site at 12 Mill Street has visual connections with the significant, predominantly Victorian and Federation styled, single storey residential Queens Avenue streetscape and the house on this site is generally in accord with the form, style and construction of these houses. The Victorian style of this house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century. Situated on a corner allotment, the house fronts onto Mill Street, which is characterised by a bitumen road with wide gravel verges and unusual bluestone kerb.
The front of the site at 12 Mill Street is bound by an early post and wire fence, covered in creeper. The front setback onto Mill Street is approximately 3 metres, with narrower side setbacks. A landmark feature of the front garden is the substantial palm tree.
The symmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, Victorian styled house is characterised by a simple dominant hipped roof form and a hipped bullnosed verandah that projects towards the Mill Street frontage. These roof forms are clad in painted brown galvanised corrugated iron. An early unpainted brick chimney with a corbelled top adorns the roofline. Narrow overhangs with worked timber brackets are features of the eaves.
The symmetrical composition of the design is denoted by the early timber framed, triple light, double hung windows, which flank an the central doorway.
A distinctive feature of the design is the early cast iron verandah decoration, notably the verandah valances and brackets, although the columns may be more recent.
Heritage Study and Grading
Northern Grampians - Shire of Northern Grampians - Stage 2 Heritage Study
Author: Wendy Jacobs, Vicki Johnson, David Rowe, Phil Taylor
Year: 2004
Grading:
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CROWN LAND OFFICEVictorian Heritage Register H1530
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LORD NELSON TAILINGS DUMPVictorian Heritage Inventory
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LORD NELSON MINE SITEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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