House, 'Clovelly' (former 'Myrrdin'), 5-7 Clifton Avenue, STAWELL
5-7 Clifton Avenue STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
Clovelly, 5-7 Clifton Avenue, Stawell has significance as a predominantly intact 19th century house in the remains of a large garden setting. Built by mining investor William Anthony soon after his marriage it remained in the Anthony family until 1919. The Anthony family were related to "Teapot Thomas" a local shop owner and operated shops in Stawell and Marnoo as Anthony and Coy from the 1890s until the 1940s. The house later became the home of the Williams family of whom father and son were Stawell Councillors.
Clovelly, 5-7 Clifton Avenue, Stawell is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. The house demonstrates original and early design qualities of a Victorian Villa style. These qualities include the single storey height; hipped and gable roof forms, the convex form return verandah supported on paired cast iron columns with cast iron frieze and balustrade; face brick wall with rendered quoins and architraves; central main doorway with transom light above; timber framed double hung windows; rendered brick chimneys with incised rectangular panels and projecting tops. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the corrugated metal roof cladding to all roof forms and the interwar additions to the Clifton Avenue facade. The garden setting contributes to the significance of the place.
Clovelly, 5-7 Clifton Avenue, Stawell is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with William Anthony who constructed the house in 1873, the Anthony family and the Williams family. The property also has associations with George Inskip, prominent architect of Melbourne and Stawell.
Overall, Clovelly, 5-7 Clifton Avenue, Stawell is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 'Clovelly' (former 'Myrrdin'), 5-7 Clifton Avenue, STAWELL - Physical Description 1
Clovelly, 5-7 Clifton Avenue, Stawell originally occupied a very large site with the house facing Barnes Street. The site slopes from Clifton Avenue down towards Barnes Street. The back of the house faces Clifton Street. The house still retains a garden setting with some remaining early plantings including a Canary Island Palm. The original front facade had a hipped M form roof clad in corrugated steel. The roof has modest eaves supported on timber brackets. Below the roof line springs a slightly convex form verandah roof. The verandah returns around each side of the house and terminates at gable roofed wings which intersect the main roof. The verandah is supported on paired cast iron posts and there is a decorative cast iron frieze and balustrade. There are two rendered chimneys with rendered panels, cornice and dentillations near the original front of the house. To the Clifton Avenue side of the house are two tall painted brick chimneys with brick banding which appear to be later additions. The walls are of face brick work with rendered quoinwork to the windows, doors and corners. There is a circular vent in the gable end. The front has a central doorway with transom light over and a double hung, timber framed window on either side. There is a centrally placed set of steps leading from the verandah to the garden. The rear of the original house has been renovated in the interwar period to provide a new face to the house fronting Clifton Avenue. This has been carried out in brick and render. There is a later timber shed now used as a garage on the Clifton Avenue boundary.
The property has a large grassed area on the west of the house which has a large shed now clad in corrugated steel. The shed floor level is raised from the ground and has large stumps of roughly squared timber. Adjacent to this shed is a smaller carriage shed which has a gable roof with a skillion section to one side. The carriage shed was originally clad in beaded edge weatherboards and has a turned timber finial at the gable end. Facing Barnes Street the skillion roofed section has a pair of timber doors in an arched opening. The gable roofed section has a loft in the upper part of the gable. The building has been roughly reclad in corrugated steel and is in poor condition. At some distance from the house and other sheds is a rectangular brick building which appears to have been constructed during the war years by the Anthony family as a fuel depot.
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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