House, 8 Edwards Street, GLENORCHY
8 Edwards Street GLENORCHY, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house, 8 Edwards Street, Glenorchy, has significance as a predominantly intact example of a Late Victorian style. Possibly built in the late 19th or very early 20th century, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.
The house, 8 Edwards Street, Glenorchy, is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Glenorchy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with the hipped ogee form verandah that projects towards the front. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, face brick chimney with a corbelled top, narrow eaves with paired timber brackets, timber framed doorway with sidelights, highlight and four panelled timber door, timber framed double hung windows, and the verandah details (timber columns and decorative brackets and valances).
Overall, the house, 8 Edwards Street, Glenorchy is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 8 Edwards Street, GLENORCHY - Physical Description 1
The house, 8 Edwards Street, Glenorchy, has a rural mature garden setting comprising several later exotic and native trees, central path, grassed areas and perimeter garden beds. The front is bound by a recent steel mesh fence.
The single storey, horizontal timber weatherboard, Late Victorian styled house is characterised by a hipped roof form, together with a hipped ogee form verandah that projects toward the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in painted galvanised corrugated iron. An early face brick chimney with a corbelled top adorns the roof line. Narrow overhangs with paired timber brackets are a feature of the eaves.
An early feature of the design is the front verandah. It is supported by timber columns and has decorative brackets and valances simulated cast iron that appear to be recent.
Other features of the design include the front timber framed doorway with sidelights and highlight and four panelled timber door, and the flanking 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:
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