House, 67 McMahon Street, ST ARNAUD
67 McMahon Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 67 McMahon Street, St. Arnaud, forms part of a group of four single storey, pitched roofed Victorian and Federation styled houses. This house has significance as a moderately intact example of a transitional Late Victorian and Edwardian style. The design of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.
The house at 67 McMahon 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 transitional Late Victorian and Edwardian style. These qualities include the gambrel roof form, together with the bullnosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, brick chimney with a multi-corbelled top, timber framed double hung windows, modest eaves and the timber ridge decoration.
Overall, the house at 67 McMahon Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 67 McMahon Street, ST ARNAUD - Physical Description 1
The house at 67 McMahon Street, St. Arnaud, forms part of a group of four Victorian and Federation styled single storey, pitched roof houses.
This house has a modest front setback that is dominated by overgrown shrubbery. There is also a side grassed driveway.
The single storey, horizontal weatherboard, transitional Late Victorian and Edwardian styled house is characterised by a simple gambrel roof form, together with a bullnosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in lapped galvanised corrugated iron. A painted brick chimney with a multi-corbelled top adorns the roofline. Modest overhangs are a feature of the eaves.
The early window openings have timber frames and are double hung. An early or appropriate decorative feature of the design is the timber ridge decoration.
The side flat roofed carport has been introduced.
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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