House, 13 Seaby Street, STAWELL
13 Seaby Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 13 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 transitional Late Victorian and Federation design of this house suggests that it was constructed in the early 20th century.
The house at 13 Seaby Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell in the late 19th century, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a transitional Late Victorian and Federation style.These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with a return bullnosed verandah that projects toward the front and side, and rear gable roof form that projects towards the side. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall construction, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, two unpainted brick chimneys with rendered dentillated cornices, modest eaves with timber brackets, central four panelled timber door with side and high lights, timber framed double hung windows, turned timber verandah columns, cast iron verandah brackets and valances, recessed doorway, projecting window hoods supported by timber fretwork brackets, timber members of the flying gable, timber finial, and the timber joinery simulating shingling on the walls of the front hipped roof wing.
Overall, the house at 13 Seaby Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 13 Seaby Street, STAWELL - Physical Description 1
The site at 13 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 is characterised by a grassed area, large trees and shrubs and a side gravel driveway. The front perimeter of the site is identified by the introduced low unpainted brick fence.
The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, transitional Late Victorian and Federation styled house is characterised by a hipped roof form, together with a return bullnosed verandah that projects toward the front and side, and rear gable and skillion roof forms that project towards the side. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron. Two early unpainted brick chimneys with rendered dentillated cornices adorn the roofline. Modest overhangs with timber brackets are features of the eaves.
The front hipped roof wing of the house is largely symmetrical and representative of typical Victorian styled houses. It has a central four panelled timber door with side and high lights, and flanking pairs of timber framed double hung windows. The introduced but appropriate turned timber verandah columns and the early cast iron brackets and valances are also typical of Victorian design.
The recessed doorway and flanking gable wing is more typical of Federation styled houses, with its pairs of timber framed windows shaded by projecting window hoods supported by timber fretwork brackets. The timber members of the flying gable, and the timber finial, are other decorative features.
Other early decorative features of the design include the timber joinery simulating shingling on the walls of the front hipped roof wing.
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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