House, 115 Main Street, GREAT WESTERN
115 Main Street GREAT WESTERN, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 115 Main Street, Great Western, contributes to the significant, single storey, pitched roof central township area. Although relocated and altered, this house has significance as a relatively externally intact example of a transitional Late Victorian/Edwardian style. The design of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.
The house at 115 Main Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with building developments in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and although altered, it demonstrates some original design qualities of a transitional Late Victorian/Edwardian style. These qualities include the gambrel roof form, together with the skillion verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the small gable termination of the gambrel apex (indicating a rear gable section), single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding overpainted red, modest eaves, central timber doorway and transom, timber framed double hung windows, and the square timber verandah columns.
Overall, the house at 115 Main Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 115 Main Street, GREAT WESTERN - Physical Description 1
The house at 115 Main Street, Great Western, is set on an average-sized residential allotment with visual connections to the Memorial Park and other single storey, pitched roof and timber houses. The front garden consists of grassed areas and perimeter flower beds and trees. The front is bound by a post and rail and cyclone wire fence with hollow steel gates, the whole being approximately 1200 mm high.
The single storey, horizontal weatherboard, transitional Late Victorian/Edwardian styled house is characterised by a gambrel roof form, together with a skillion verandah that projects towards the street frontage. The apex of the gambrel indicates a small gable termination for the rear section of the building. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron overpainted red. Modest overhangs are features of the eaves. The front facade is symmetrical, with an early central timber doorway and flanking early timber framed double hung windows. The verandah, which extends beyond the house corner to the north, suggests that there has been later infill in this location. The verandah is also supported by introduced square timber columns.
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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