House, 15 Skene Street, STAWELL
15 Skene Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 15 Skene Street, Stawell, makes a significant architectural and visual contribution to the predominantly late 19th and early 20th century residential area. This house also has significance as an intact example of the interwar Bungalow style. Built in the c.1920s for Ernest and Edith Bodey, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.
The house at 15 Skene Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the gable roof form that traverses the site, together with the steeply pitched gable entrance porch that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, face brick wall construction, terra cotta tile roof cladding, flat roof verandah that projects at the front, side skillion wing, wide eaves, face brick elongated chimney with a terra cotta pot, timber framed multi-paned double hung windows, square timber porch posts and face brick balustrades with rendered concrete cappings, and the decorative porch gable infill (battening and panelling). The front garden also contributes to the significance of the place, particularly the concrete pedestrian path and grassed areas.
The house at 15 Skene Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell during the interwar period (c.1920s - 1940s). In particular, this house appears to have associations with Ernest and Edith Bodey, possible original owners who instigated construction in the 1920s.
Overall, the house at 15 Skene Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 15 Skene Street, STAWELL - Physical Description 1
The house at 15 Skene Street, Stawell, is set in a predominantly intact residential streetscape with visual connections to late 19th and early 20th century Victorian, Edwardian/Federation and interwar Bungalow styled houses with well-landscape gardens. This house has a substantial front setback (and one substantial side setback also), which is characterised by open grassed areas, perimeter garden beds with rock borders, concrete pedestrian path and mature shrubs.
The asymmetrical, single storey, face brick, interwar Bungalow styled house is characterised by a gable roof form that traverses the site, together with a steeply pitched front gabled entrance porch and flat roofed verandah that project towards the street frontage. There is also an early side skillion wing. The gabled roof forms are clad in early terra cotta tiles. An early elongated face brick chimney with a terra cotta pot adorns the roofline at the side. Wide overhangs are features of the eaves.
Another early feature of the design is the front entrance porch. It is supported by square timber posts on solid face brick balustrades with rendered concrete cappings. The timber battening and panelling in the gable infill is also early, as are the brick steps and side brick and capped balustrades at the sides. The timber and glazed double doors beyond the porch are also early.
Other early features of the design include the timber framed multi-paned 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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HILL PIPE ORGAN - ST PETER'S LUTHERAN CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H2177
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CENTRAL PARKVictorian Heritage Register H2284
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COMMONWEALTH MEMORIALVictorian Heritage Register H1943
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