Cottage & Peter Cuffley Garden, 10 Napier Street, ST ARNAUD
10 Napier Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The cottage and Peter Cuffley garden, 10 Napier Street, St. Arnaud, makes a significant architectural and visual contribution to the predominantly Victorian and Federation styled streetscape. The Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th centuries.
The cottage is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Although partially altered, it demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form and the convex verandah that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding (painted dark red), two unpainted brick chimneys with corbelled tops, narrow eaves, central early doorway and transom, timber framed double hung windows, timber verandah columns and the vertical boarded infill about the verandah roof level at the sides. The Peter Cuffley garden at the side also contributes to the significance of the place.
The cottage is historically significant at a LOCAL. It is associated with the residential development of St. Arnaud at the end of the nineteenth century.
Overall, the cottage, Napier Street, is of LOCAL significance.
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Cottage & Peter Cuffley Garden, 10 Napier Street, ST ARNAUD - Physical Description 1
The cottage and Peter Cuffley gardens, Napier Street, St. Arnaud, make a significant architectural and visual contribution to this area of the town. The cottage is set on a wide allotment, with the cottage garden designed by Peter Cuffley at one side. The front is bound by a timber picket fence and hedge (immediately in front of the cottage) and a more recent wire mesh fence and hedge, all of which are approximately 1500 mm high.
The single storey, horizontal weatherboard, Victorian styled house is characterised by a hipped roof form and a convex verandah that projects towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron painted dark red. Two early unpainted brick chimneys with corbelled tops adorn the roofline at one side. Narrow overhangs are a feature of the eaves. The symmetrical nature of the front facade is determined by the central early doorway and transom (with introduced door) and flanking early timber framed double hung windows. The verandah is supported by introduced but appropriate stop chamfered timber columns. There is also appropriate, vertical boarded infill about the verandah roof level at the sides.
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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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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