Avon Grove, 1323 Banyena Silo Road, RICH AVON WEST
1323 Banyena Silo Road RICH AVON WEST, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
-
Add to tour
You must log in to do that.
-
Share
-
Shortlist place
You must log in to do that.
- Download report
Statement of Significance
Avon Grove, 1323 Banyena Silo Road, Rich Avon West, has significance as a predominantly intact example of a Late Victorian style and for its mature garden setting. Possibly built between the late 19th and very early 20th centuries, the house appears to be in fair-good condition when viewed at a distance.
Avon Grove, 1323 Banyena Silo Road, Rich Avon West, is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with farming and residential developments in the local area between the late 19th and very early 20th centuries. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with the gable that projects towards the front, and the return verandah that projects at the front and side. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, narrow eaves, timber verandah columns, brackets and fretwork valances, central timber framed doorway and the timber framed double hung windows. The mature exotic and native trees that create the garden setting to the house, notably the palm, pines, and eucalypts, together with the post and rail and woven wire fence and scrolled metal gate, also contribute to the significance of the place.
Overall, Avon Grove, 1323 Banyena Silo Road, Rich Avon West, is of LOCAL significance.
-
-
Avon Grove, 1323 Banyena Silo Road, RICH AVON WEST - Physical Description 1
Avon Grove, 1323 Banyena Silo Road, Rich Avon West, has a rural setting with the house garden consisting of numerous exotic and native trees including a mature palm, pines and eucalypts. There are some open grassed areas and perimeter shrubbery. The house garden is bound by a post and rail and woven wire fence with a scrolled metal gated, the whole being approximately 1200mm high.
The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal timber weatherboard, Late Victorian styled house is characterised by a hipped roof form, together with gable that projects towards the front and a return verandah that projects at the front and side. These roof forms are clad in painted galvanised corrugated iron. Narrow overhangs are features of the eaves.
A feature of the design is the return verandah. It has Edwardian detailing in the timber columns, brackets and fretwork valances.
Other early features of the design include the central timber framed doorway and the timber framed double hung windows.
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:
-
-
-
-
-
Burrum Burrum Cemetery, Cemetery Road, BANYENANorthern Grampians Shire
-
'Melrose' Residence, Glenorchy-Donald Road, BANYENANorthern Grampians Shire
-
Banyena School Site, St.Arnaud-Banyena Road, BANYENANorthern Grampians Shire
-
-