House, 18 Skene Street, STAWELL
18 Skene Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 18 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 and for its unusual timber weatherboard and trapped pressed sheet wall cladding. Built between the c.1920s and 1940s, possibly for Roland and Amy Wadsworth, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.
The house at 18 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 gable that projects towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, green-painted galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, unusual horizontal timber weatherboard and strapped pressed sheet wall cladding, clinker brick chimney, projecting rectangular window bay with timber framed double hung windows (the upper sashes being two paned), other timber framed double hung windows, clinker brick porch column, timber framed entrance doorway with leadlighted sidelights, and the shingled hood that projects from the corner porch.
The house at 18 Skene Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell during the interwar (c.1920s-1940s) period. In particular, this house may have associations with Roland N. and Amy M. Wadsworth, who appear to have instigated construction.
Overall, the house at 18 Skene Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 18 Skene Street, STAWELL - Physical Description 1
The house at 18 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 is situated on a corner location and has typical setbacks. There are open grassed areas, together with a mature pencil pine, concrete pedestrian path and boundary fencing covered in hedging that is approximately 1800 mm high.
The asymmetrical, single storey, weatherboard and strapped pressed sheet, interwar Bungalow house is characterised by a gable roof form that traverses the site, together with a gable that projects towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in green-painted galvanised corrugated iron. An early clinker brick chimney adorns the roofline at the side.
An early feature of the design is the projecting rectangular bay window with its timber framed double hung windows have two paned upper sashes. The corner porch is supported by a clinker brick column. Other early features include the other timber framed double hung windows, timber framed front doorway with leadlight sidelights, and the projecting shingled hood to the corner porch.
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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