House - 'Innersfree', 12 Silvermines Road, ST ARNAUD
12 Silvermines Road ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 12 Silvermines Road, St. Arnaud, has significance as a reasonably externally intact example of a Late Victorian style. The design qualities of this house suggest that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century.
The house at 12 Silvermines Road 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. Although partially altered, it still demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form, the bullnosed verandah (front portion only), galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding and the semicircular ventilators. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, unpainted red brick chimney with a dentillated and corbelled top, interwar brick chimney with a soldier course capping, modest eaves with worked timber brackets, centrally located timber framed doorway having a four panelled timber door, sidelights and transoms, and the flanking paired timber framed double hung windows.
Overall, the house at 12 Silvermines Road is of LOCAL significance.
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House - 'Innersfree', 12 Silvermines Road, ST ARNAUD - Physical Description 1
The house at 12 Silvermines Road is set on an average-sized residential allotment with a front setback of approximately 8 metres. The front is characterised by a grassed area and recent perimeter and central plantings. There is a gravel driveway to one side.
The single storey, horizontal weatherboard, Late Victorian styled house is characterised by a hipped roof form, together with an altered return bullnosed verandah that projects towards the front and side. A rear gable roof that extends at the side appears to represent an addition of the 1920s-30s, as does the side section of the bullnosed verandah. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron, with the hipped roof accentuated by two semicircular ventilators. An early unpainted red brick chimney with a dentillated and corbelled top adorns the roofline, as does an interwar brick chimney with a soldier course capping. Modest overhangs and worked timber brackets are features of the eaves.
The front facade is symmetrically composed with an early timber framed doorway having a four panelled timber door (recent screen door), sidelights and transoms, and flanking paired timber framed double hung windows. The bank of timber framed windows at the side represent later work. The verandah is supported by introduced square timber posts.
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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LORD NELSON TAILINGS DUMPVictorian Heritage Inventory
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LORD NELSON MINE SITEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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