House, 32 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD
32 Queens Avenue ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 32 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 32 Queens Avenue is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the residential developments in St. Arnaud in the latter 19th century, 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 bullnosed verandah that projects towards the street frontage and returns down one side. Other intact qualities include the green painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, ashlar block profile weatherboard cladding to the main elevation, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding to the secondary elevations, two unpainted brick chimneys with corbelled tops, narrow eaves with paired timber brackets, central doorway, flanking timber framed, triple light, double hung windows, cast iron verandah decoration (valances and brackets) and the turned timber columns.
Overall, the house at 32 Queens Avenue is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 32 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD - Physical Description 1
The site at 32 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 a recent timber picket fence, approximately 1500 mm high, and scrolled metal pedestrian and driveway gates. The front setback of the house is approximately 5 metres and is typical for the street, as are the narrow side setbacks and the side driveway. The front yard appears to have a recent garden.
The symmetrical, single storey, late Victorian styled house clad with ashlar block profile weatherboards and horizontal weatherboards 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 green painted and 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 timber framed, triple light, double hung windows that are symmetrically arranged on the front facade are early, as is the central doorway.
Apart from the eaves brackets and ashlar block profile weatherboards, other early decorative features of the design include the cast iron verandah decoration (valances and brackets) and the turned timber columns.
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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