House, 46 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD
46 Queens Avenue ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 46 Queens Avenue makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey, Victorian styled residential streetscape. The Victorian style of the house suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.
Although partially altered, the house at 46 Queens Avenue is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in St. Arnaud in the late 19th or early 20th centuries, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the asymmetrical and double fronted composition, single storey height, recessed hipped roof form which traverses the site, hipped roof that projects towards the Queens Avenue fronting and the return bullnosed verandah that envelopes the main facades and side. Other intact qualities include the galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, ashlar block profile weatherboard cladding on the Queens Avenue facade, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, two white painted brick chimneys with corbelled tops, narrow eaves with timber brackets and panelling, and the cast iron verandah decoration (valances, brackets and round columns with pedestals and decorative capitals).
Overall, the house at 46 Queens Avenue is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 46 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD - Physical Description 1
The site at 46 Queens Avenue has visual connections to the significant urban foci of the Church of Christ, the Church of the Immaculate Conception, and the Church of the Immaculate Conception Presbytery in Queens Avenue. The house is generally in accord with the form, scale and style of the predominantly Victorian styled, single storey houses visually connected to it. The Victorian style of this house suggests that it was constructed in either the late 19th or early 20th century.
This house dominates its site with modest front and side setbacks. The front yards are characterised by grassed areas.
The asymmetrical, single storey, double fronted Victorian styled house, clad with ashlar block profile weatherboards and horizontal weatherboards, is characterised by a recessed hipped roof form which traverses the site, together with a hipped roof that projects towards the Queens Avenue frontage and a return bullnosed verandah that envelopes the main facades and side. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron. Two early white painted brick chimneys with corbelled tops adorn the roofline. Narrow overhangs, timber brackets and panelling are features of the eaves.
On the Queens Avenue facade, the early window openings have been replaced with larger aluminium framed windows which contrast inappropriately with the proportions and early construction of the design.
A notable early decorative feature of the design is the cast iron verandah decoration, including the valances, brackets and round columns with pedestals and 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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