House, 117-123 Stephenson Street, GREAT WESTERN
117-123 Stephenson Street GREAT WESTERN, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 117-123 Stephenson Street, Great Western, has significance as a relatively externally intact example of a vernacular Victorian style. The design of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.
The house at 117-123 Stephenson 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 partially altered, it demonstrates some original design qualities of a vernacular Victorian style. These qualities include the triple gable roof form that traverses the site, together with a skillion verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, unpainted red brick chimney with a corbelled top, narrow eaves, and the centrally located timber framed front doorway.
Overall, the house at 117-123 Stephenson Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 117-123 Stephenson Street, GREAT WESTERN - Physical Conditions
The house at 117-123 Stephenson Street, Great Western, is set on a large rural residential allotment and has a front setback of approximately 5 metres. The garden consists of grassed areas with some shrubbery, and mainly substantial eucalypts. The front is bound by a timber post and rail and wire fence, approximately 1200 mm high.
The single storey, horizontal weatherboard, vernacular Victorian styled house is characterised by a triple gabled roof form that traverses the site, together with a skillion verandah that projects towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron. An early unpainted brick chimney with a corbelled top adorns the rear section of the roofline. Narrow overhangs are features of the eaves. Under the front verandah (which is supported by square timber columns) is an early centrally located timber framed doorway. It is flanked by introduced paired timber framed double hung windows of the interwar (1920s-40s) period. Along the western side of the house is a galvanised iron downpipe that spans across the elevation to the water tank at the rear.
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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