House, 58 Canterbury Street, ST ARNAUD
58 Canterbury Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 58 Canterbury Street makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey residential streetscape. The Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th centuries.
The house at 58 Canterbury Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the symmetrical composition, single storey height, simple dominant hipped roof form and the hipped bullnosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, unpainted brick chimney with a dentillated and corbelled top, narrow eaves with timber brackets, timber framed double hung windows, central four panelled timber door with side and toplights, cast iron verandah decoration (valances and brackets) and the stop chamfered timber verandah columns.
Overall, the house at 58 Canterbury Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 58 Canterbury Street, ST ARNAUD - Physical Description 1
The site at 58 Canterbury Street has visual connections with the predominantly single storey residential streetscape. The house on the site is generally in accord with the form, style, construction and setbacks of the significant houses visually connected to it. The Victorian style the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th centuries.
The site at 58 Canterbury Street is bound at the front by an introduced painted brick and wire fence, with tubular steel and cyclone wire gates. The front setback of the house is approximately 5 metres, with narrower side setbacks. The front garden is typically rudimentary for the area, and is characterised by open grassed areas with perimeter garden beds.
The symmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard clad, Victorian styled house is characterised by a simple dominant hipped roof form, and a hipped bullnosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron. A later gabled addition extends towards the rear. An early unpainted brick chimney with a dentillated and corbelled top adorns the roofline, which is also interrupted by a recent air conditioning unit. Narrow overhangs with timber brackets are features of the eaves.
The symmetrical composition of the house is emphasised by the early timber framed double hung windows arranged about an early central four panelled timber door with side and toplights.
A feature of the design is the early cast iron verandah decoration, notably the valances and brackets. The timber, stop chamfered verandah columns are recent but appropriate.
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 TAILINGS DUMPVictorian Heritage Inventory
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