House, 83 Main Street, GREAT WESTERN
83 Main Street GREAT WESTERN, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 83 Main Street, Great Western, contributes to the significant, single storey, pitched roof central township area. This house has significance as a relatively externally intact example of a Victorian style. The design of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.
The house at 83 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 although slightly altered, it demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, and the location of the front section of the skillion verandah. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, two brick chimneys with corbelled tops, narrow eaves, central timber framed doorway and the timber framed double hung windows. The front timber picket fence also contributes to the significance of the place.
Overall, the house at 83 Main Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 83 Main Street, GREAT WESTERN - Physical Description 1
The house at 83 Main Street (Western Highway), Great Western, is set on a large residential allotment, with a substantial front setback of at least 10 metres. There is a substantial recent garden of flower beds, shrubs and trees, and a side gravel driveway leading to a rear garage. The front is bound by a timber picket fence, approximately 1200 mm high. The house also has visual connections with other single storey, pitched roof, timber houses with substantial front setbacks.
The single storey, horizontal weatherboard, Victorian styled house is characterised by a hipped roof form, together with an introduced return skillion verandah (supported by square timber columns) that projects to the front and side. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron. Two recently overpainted brick chimneys with corbelled tops adorn the roofline. Narrow overhangs are features of the eaves. At the front are two early timber framed double hung windows that flank an early central timber framed doorway with a four panelled timber door (the screen door has been introduced).
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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