House - 'Allambi', 58 Main Street, GREAT WESTERN
58 Main Street GREAT WESTERN, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 58 Main Street, Great Western, contributes to the significant, single storey, pitched roof central township area. Set on a large allotment with a substantial front setback, this house has significance as a relatively externally intact example of a Late Victorian style. The design of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.
The house at 58 Main Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Great Western in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victoria style. These qualities include the recessed hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with the minor hipped roof and skillion verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding overpainted green, unpainted red brick chimney with a multi-corbelled top, narrow eaves, central timber doorway with a four panelled timber door, sidelights and transom, and the timber framed double hung windows. The front timber picket fence and mature hedge on the northern boundary also contribute to the significance of the place.
Overall, the house at 58 Main Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House - 'Allambi', 58 Main Street, GREAT WESTERN - Physical Description 1
The house at 58 Main Street, Great Western, is set on a large double residential allotment, with a substantial front setback of at least 10 metres. The front garden consists of substantial garden beds, shrubs and exotic and native trees, together with a mature hedge along the northern boundary. The front is bound by a timber picket fence, approximately 1500 mm high, and a recent timber lychgate.
The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, Late Victorian styled house is characterised by a recessed hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with a minor hipped roof and skillion verandah that project towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron overpainted green. An early unpainted red brick chimney with a multi-corbelled top adorns the roofline. Narrow overhangs are features of the eaves. Under the verandah (which is supported by introduced hollow steel columns and decorated with introduced iron work) is an early central timber doorway with a four panelled timber door, sidelights and transom. Flanking the doorway are early 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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SEPPELTS CHAMPAGNE CELLARSVictorian Heritage Register H0338
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ST PETER'S VINEYARDVictorian Heritage Inventory
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Former Common SchoolNational Trust
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