House, 30 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD
30 Queens Avenue ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 30 Queens Avenue makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey, Victorian styled residential and tree-lined streetscape. The late Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.
The house at 30 Queens Avenue 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 late Victorian style. These qualities include the generally symmetrical composition, single storey height, simple dominant hipped roof form and the hipped bullnosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage and returns down one side. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, two unpainted brick chimneys with corbelled tops, narrow eaves with paired timber brackets, central recessed entrance with four panelled timber door and timber framed side and toplights, flanking bays with timber framed double hung windows, cast iron verandah decoration (valances and brackets), and the turned timber verandah columns.
Overall, the house at 30 Queens Avenue is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 30 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD - Physical Description 1
The site at 30 Queens Avenue has visual connections with other significant, predominantly Victorian styled, single storey houses in the residential and tree-lined streetscape of Queens Avenue. 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 landscaping, form, scale, setbacks and style of the significant houses visually connected to it. The late Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.
The front of the site is bound by an introduced timber picket fence, approximately 1200 mm high. The site is on gently sloping ground and the front setback is approximately 5 metres, being typical for the street. There are also typical narrow side setbacks with a driveway along one side, and the front yard has a recent garden.
The symmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, late Victorian styled house is characterised by a simple, dominant hipped roof form and a bullnosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage and returns down one side. These roof forms are clad in early lapped galvanised corrugated iron. Two early unpainted brick chimneys with corbelled tops adorn the roofline. Narrow overhangs and paired timber brackets are features of the eaves. The central recessed entrance with four panelled timber door and timber framed side and toplights are early features of the design. The flanking bays with timber framed, double hung windows may have been introduced.
An early decorative feature of the house is the cast iron verandah decoration, including the valances and brackets. The turned timber columns may be more recent but are 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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