House - 'Alvie', 39 Darlington Road, STAWELL
39 Darlington Road STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
'Alvie', 39 Darlington Road, Stawell has significance as an intact example of a Victorian style. Built in c.1869 by Mr. Edmund Grant, Mining investor, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.
'Alvie', 39 Darlington Road, Stawell is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the gabled roof forms comprising the parallel gables, together with the large intersecting gable roof that projects at the front and side, hipped curved verandah. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, corrugated iron steel roof cladding, brick chimney with corbelled brick top, modest eaves, verandah columns with cast iron verandah frieze and brackets, timber framed double hung windows, and timber framed doorway. The garden setting and the fountain add to the significance of the place.
'Alvie', 39 Darlington Road, Stawell is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell in the 19th century. In particular, this house has associations with Mr. Edmund Craigie Grant, mine owner, who constructed it in the c.1869 and his son Brigadier-General William Grant who led the charge of the 4th Light Horse Brigade at Beersheba in World War I.
Overall, 'Alvie', 39 Darlington Road, Stawell is of LOCAL significance.
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House - 'Alvie', 39 Darlington Road, STAWELL - Physical Description 1
'Alvie', 39 Darlington Road, Stawell is sited on a large sloping block in a garden setting. The house is approached from Darlington Street to the side of the house. The house faces south on the large allotment and it would appear that the land to the south may have been subdivided from the original site. The street boundary has a low square topped picket fence. There is a large fountain in the front garden. This has a deep circular base pond with a two tiered fountain supported on rendered white swans at the base.
The single storey building has two parallel gables and a large intersecting gable roof. There is a remaining brick chimney with a simple brick corbelled decoration. Across the south face is a hipped, convex curved roofed verandah. The roofs are clad in corrugated steel. The post supported verandah has decorative cast iron brackets and frieze. An early photograph of the house shows an earlier verandah with a convex verandah across the south front. The house has square edge weatherboard clad walls facing the street and timber double hung windows.
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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