House (Adjacent to Store), 32 Emu Road, EMU
32 Emu Road EMU, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house, 32 Emu Road, Emu, has significance as a moderately intact example of a Late Victorian style. The house appears to have been built in the late 19th century with additions in the early 20th century, and appears in fair condition when viewed from the street.
The house, 32 Emu Road, Emu, is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with the gable roofed side addition and the verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, timber framed doorway narrow eaves, timber framed double hung windows and decorative timber gable infill.
Overall, the house, 32 Emu Road, Emu, is of LOCAL significance.
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House (Adjacent to Store), 32 Emu Road, EMU - Physical Description 1
The house, 32 Emu Road, Emu, has a rural setting. The house has a modest set back from the road boundary. The front is bound by an introduced steel pipe and mesh fence.
The symmetrical, single storey, horizontal timber weatherboard, Late Victorian styled house characterised by a hipped roof form has gable roofed addition on one side which appears to date from the early 20th century. The earlier part of the house has a skillion form verandah that projects towards the street frontage and terminates in the gable roofed extension. The roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron. Narrow overhangs are features of the eaves.
The symmetry of the original design is accentuated by the early timber framed doorway with flanking timber framed double hung windows. The gable roof extension has a central timber framed double hung window.
The front verandah is supported by timber posts. There is a plain face brick chimney at the intersection of the original house and the side extension.
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
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