House, 25 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD
25 Queens Avenue ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 25 Queens Avenue makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey, Victorian styled residential and partly tree-lined streetscapes of Queens Avenue and of Inkerman Street between Queens Avenue and Canterbury Street. The Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th century.
The house at 25 Queens Avenue is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the late 19th century, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the generally symmetrical composition, single storey height, dominant hipped roof form clad in galvanised corrugated iron, and the return skillion verandah. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall construction, two unpainted brick chimneys with corbelled tops, narrow eaves with worked timber eaves brackets, panelling and paterae, symmetrically arranged timber framed, triple light, double hung windows, recessed central entrance with a four panelled single timber door, and the cast iron verandah decoration (valance and brackets, and round cast iron columns with decorative capitals).
Overall, the house at 25 Queens Avenue is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 25 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD - Physical Description 1
The site at 25 Queens Avenue has visual connections with other significant, predominantly Victorian styled, single storey houses in the residential and partly tree-lined streetscapes of Queens Avenue and of Inkerman Street between Queens Avenue and Canterbury Street. It is also visually connected to the significant urban foci of the Christ Anglican Church and Christ Anglican Church hall (a former denominational school) in Queens Avenue. The house is generally in accord with the form, scale, construction, style and setbacks of the significant houses visually connected to it. The Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th century.
The house is situated on a corner allotment with typical front and side setbacks and is bound at the front by a recent timber picket fence. The front garden has small shrubs and open grassed areas.
The symmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, Victorian styled house is characterised by a dominant hipped roof form clad in galvanised corrugated iron, and a return skillion verandah. Two unpainted brick chimneys with corbelled tops adorn the roof line. Narrow overhangs, worked timber eaves brackets, panelling and paterae are features of the eaves. Other early features of the design include the timber framed, triple light, double hung windows arranged symmetrically about a recessed central entrance that features an early four panelled timber door.
Another early decorative feature of the design is the cast iron verandah decoration, including the valance and brackets, and round cast iron columns with decorative capitals.
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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