House, McLennan Street, MARNOO
McLennan Street MARNOO, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house in McLennan Street, Marnoo, has significance as a moderately intact example of a Late Victorian style. Built in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, the house may have been relocated to this site, given its elevated status and absence of a brick chimney.
The house in McLennan Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Although possibly relocated, the house still demonstrates some original/early design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with the front skillion verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the symmetrical composition, single storey height, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, narrow eaves with timber brackets and paterae with panelling between, central front timber framed doorway and flanking paired timber framed double hung windows, and the other paired timber framed double hung windows. The house in McLennan Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Marnoo in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular, this house has associations with the provision of medical services in the town in the 1920s and 30s.
Overall, the house in McLennan Street is of LOCAL significance.
RECOMMENDED LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE: LOCAL
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House, McLennan Street, MARNOO - Physical Description 1
The house in McLennan Street, Marnoo, is set on an average sized allotment for the area. It has a modest front setback featuring a small grassed area and perimeter flower beds. There is a wide side setback with a concrete driveway and pathway, and grassed area with shrubs. The front is bound by an introduced concrete post and cyclone wire fence and gates that are approximately 1200 mm high.
The symmetrical, single storey, horizontal timber weatherboard, Late Victorian styled house is characterised by a hipped roof form, together with a skillion verandah (supported by introduced timber columns) that projects towards the street frontage. There are rear skillion wings that may be later additions. These roof forms and skillion wings are clad in galvanised corrugated iron. Narrow overhangs with timber brackets having paterae and panelling between are features of the eaves. The absence of a brick chimney, together with the elevated nature of the dwelling, suggests that it has been relocated to this site.
The symmetry of the design is accentuated by the central front timber framed doorway and the early flanking paired timber framed double hung windows. There are other paired timber framed windows towards the rear at the side.
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: Local
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