House, 6 Seaby Street, STAWELL
6 Seaby Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 6 Seaby Street, Stawell, makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey, Victorian styled streetscape of Seaby Street between the railway line and Johnson Street. The Edwardian design of this house suggests that it was constructed in the early 20th century.
The house at 6 Seaby Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell in the early 20th century, and it demonstrates original design qualities of an Edwardian style. These qualities include the recessed steeply pitched hipped roof form, together with a minor gable and hipped roof verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall construction, painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, two unpainted brick chimneys with multi-corbelled tops, modest eaves, pair of timber framed double hung windows under the front gable, single double hung windows at the sides, and the gable infill (battening and panelling).
Overall, the house at 6 Seaby Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 6 Seaby Street, STAWELL - Physical Description 1
The site at 6 Seaby Street is visually connected to other significant, single storey, predominantly Victorian styled houses in the streetscape of Seaby Street between the railway line and Johnson Street. It is also visually connected to the significant urban foci of St. Matthew's Uniting Church spire to the north-east.
This house is generally in accord with the form, scale, style and setbacks of the significant houses visually connected to it. The front yard consists of a central paved pedestrian path with recent brick edging, flanking open grassed areas and perimeter plantings. The front is bound by an introduced bluestone fence, approximately 450 mm high.
The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, Edwardian styled house is characterised by a recessed steeply pitched hipped roof form, together with a minor gable and hipped roof verandah that project towards the street frontage. An introduced skillion wing is situated at the rear. These roof forms are clad in painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron. Two early unpainted brick chimneys with multi-corbelled tops adorn the roofline. Modest overhangs are a feature of the eaves.
The pair of timber framed double hung windows under the front gable are early, as are the side double hung windows. However, the window bank under the verandah - with a central fixed light and flanking double hung windows - is more suggestive of interwar Bungalow design and may have replaced an early single window in the 1920s or 1930s.
A feature of the design is the front verandah. It is supported by introduced but appropriate square timber columns, with decorative timber brackets and fretwork valance.
Other early decorative features of the design include the battening and panelling of the gable infill.
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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FORMER LITERARY & SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTEVictorian Heritage Register H0531
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HILL PIPE ORGAN - ST PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H2177
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CENTRAL PARKVictorian Heritage Register H2284
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