House, 39 Bowen Street, ST ARNAUD
39 Bowen Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 39 Bowen Street makes a significant contribution the predominantly single storey, Victorian and Edwardian styled streetscape in this section of the street. The Late Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed around the turn of the 20th century, or more probably after the land on which it is located was subdivided along with other adjoining allotments in late 1899 or early 1900.
The house at 39 Bowen Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. The house demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the simple dominant hipped roof form that traverses the site, and the bullnosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, the brick chimneys with corbelled tops, the modest boxed eaves, the timber framed double hung windows, the four panelled timber door with sidelights, the turned timber verandah columns, the elaborate cast iron verandah valances and brackets, and the other verandah decoration including the distinctive central gablet which shows a curvilinear eastern influence in its design and has a faux shingled timber infill.
The site at 39 Bowen Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular, this site is associated with part of Lots 1 and 2 of Section J3 that were sold to F. H. Crook in 1890, and with the later subdivision of the land under LP 4147, in late 1899 or early 1900.
Overall, the house at 39 Bowen Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 39 Bowen Street, ST ARNAUD - Physical Description 1
The house at 39 Bowen Street is in accord with the style and form of the neighbouring significant, predominantly Victorian and Edwardian styled, single storey houses visually connected to it.
This house has a front setback of approximately 8 metres and is bound at the front by a timber picket fence, approximately 1.5m high. The front yard is characterised by open grassed areas, and minor garden plantings.
The symmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, Late Victorian styled house is characterised by a simple dominant hipped roof that traverses the site, and a bullnosed verandah with a curved timber portico that projects towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in lapped galvanised corrugated iron. Modest overhangs are a feature of the boxed eaves. Two early brick (recently painted) chimneys with corbelled tops adorn the roofline at one side. The symmetrical arrangement of the design is emphasised by the early timber framed double hung windows that flank a central, early four panelled timber door with sidelights.
Early or appropriate decorative features of the design include the turned timber verandah columns, the elaborate cast iron verandah brackets and valances, and the distinctive central gablet which shows a curvilinear eastern influence in its design and has a faux shingled timber infill.
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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CROWN LAND OFFICEVictorian Heritage Register H1530
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ST ARNAUD RAILWAY STATIONVictorian Heritage Register H1594
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LORD NELSON MINE SITEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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