House, 34 Seaby Street, STAWELL
34 Seaby Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 34 Seaby Street, Stawell, makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey, Victorian styled streetscape of Seaby Street and has visual connections to the Grampians ranges. The Late Victorian style of this house suggests that it was constructed in either the late 19th or early 20th century.
Although altered, the house at 34 Seaby Street is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style.These qualities include the hipped roof form, together with a minor hip that projects towards the street frontage and a return convex verandah roof that projects at the front and side. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall construction, painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, rendered brick chimney with projecting cornice, narrow eaves, timber framed double hung windows (including the tripartite windows at the front), front timber framed doorway has early side and high lights, four panelled timber door and the timber verandah floor boards. The substantial palm tree at the front also contributes to the significance of the place.
Overall, the 34 Seaby Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 34 Seaby Street, STAWELL - Physical Description 1
The site at 34 Seaby Street is visually connected to other significant, single storey, predominantly Victorian styled houses in the streetscape of Seaby Street. It is also visually connected to the Grampians ranges to the south-west.
This house has a front yard identified by a large, mature palm tree, with plain grassed areas and little other garden of importance. The front setback is largely in accord with the setbacks of the neighbouring houses. The front is bound by an introduced steel post and balustrade fence, on a concrete plinth.
The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, Late Victorian styled house is characterised by a hipped roof form, together with a minor hip that projects towards the street frontage and a return convex verandah roof that projects at the front and side. These roof forms are clad in painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron. A rendered brick chimney with projecting cornice adorns the roofline. Narrow overhangs are a feature of the eaves.
The timber framed double hung windows are early. Those windows on the street facade are tripartite, having a large central window with two narrow flanking windows. The window on the projecting hip has an introduced blind. The early front timber framed doorway has early side and high lights, and an early four panelled timber door.
A feature of the design is the return verandah. It is supported by introduced steel truss columns, although the timber verandah floor boards may be early.
At the rear of the house is an introduced skillion addition.
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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CENTRAL PARKVictorian Heritage Register H2284
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FORMER POLICE SUPERINTENDENT'S RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0986
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