House, 31 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD
31 Queens Avenue ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The site at 31 Queens Avenue makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey, Victorian styled residential and tree-lined streetscape. The Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th century.
The house at 31 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 symmetrical composition, single storey height, simple, dominant hipped roof form and hipped verandah that projects at the front. Other intact 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, panelling and paterae, central recessed entrance with four panelled timber door and timber framed side and toplights, flanking timber framed, triple light, double hung windows, and the round cast iron verandah columns with decorative capitals.
Overall, the house at 31 Queens Avenue is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 31 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD - Physical Description 1
The site at 31 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 Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th century.
The contextually large site is bound at the front by a later hedge, and has sizeable front and side setbacks. There is also a recently paved driveway at the side. The front yard has a large grassed area with recent garden.
The symmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, Victorian styled house is characterised by a simple, dominant hipped roof form and hipped verandah that projects at the front. These roof forms are clad in lapped galvanised corrugated iron. A later skillion verandah (of an interwar Bungalow style) is situated at one side and supported by round Doric columns. Two unpainted brick chimneys with corbelled tops adorn the roofline. Narrow overhangs, paired timber brackets, panelling and paterae are features of the eaves. The early timber framed, triple light, double hung windows are symmetrically composed about a recessed central entrance, which features an early four panelled timber door and timber framed side and toplights. Galvanised steel ornamentation has been introduced at the gutters on the street facade. An early decorative feature of the design is the round cast iron verandah columns with decorative capitals (the timber brackets are a more recent addition).
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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