House, 17 Main Street, STAWELL
17 Main Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 17 Main Street, Stawell, has significance as a predominantly intact example of a Late Victorian style. Possibly built in the late 19th or very early 20th century, the house appears to be in fair-good condition when viewed from the street.
The house at 17 Main Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof forms, together with the return bullnosed verandah. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, rendered brick chimneys, narrow eaves with timber brackets and rectangular timber panels, timber framed tripartite double hung windows, timber framed doorway with sidelights, stop chamfered timber verandah columns with projecting capitals, cast iron verandah brackets and the window hoods.
The house at 17 Main Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell in the late 19th or very early 20th century.
Overall, the house at 17 Main Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 17 Main Street, STAWELL - Physical Description 1
The house at 17 Main Street, Stawell, is set on an average sized allotment for the area, and has a typical front setback. The front comprises an open grassed area with perimeter garden beds and shrubbery. There is an introduced skillion carport at the side. The front is bound by an introduced open timber paling fence, approximately 1300 mm high.
The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal timber weatherboard, Late Victorian styled house is characterised by a hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with a rear hipped roof that projects at the side, and a minor hipped roof that projects towards the street frontage. There is also early return bullnosed verandah. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron. Three early rendered brick chimneys with projecting tops adorn the roofline. Narrow overhangs with timber brackets and rectangular timber panels are features of the eaves.
The return verandah is supported by early stop chamfered timber columns having projecting moulded capitals. The cast iron-like verandah brackets provide decoration.
Other early features of the design include the timber framed tripartite windows, timber framed and the doorway with sidelights. The window hoods may have been introduced.
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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