House, 31 Skene Street, STAWELL
31 Skene Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 31 Skene Street, Stawell, makes a significant architectural and visual contribution to the predominantly late 19th and early 20th century residential area. This house has significance as an intact example of a transitional Late Victorian/Edwardian style. Although the original construction date has not been ascertained, the design of the building suggests that it was constructed in the late 19th or early 20th century. At an early date, it was occupied by the Phillips family until the late 1930s or 1940s. The house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.
The house at 31 Skene Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a transitional Late Victorian/Edwardian style. These qualities include the hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with the hipped roof and bullnosed verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, brick chimney with a multi-corbelled top, narrow eaves with paired timber brackets, panelling and paterae, timber framed double hung windows, front timber framed doorway with sidelights, timber verandah posts and the decorative cast iron verandah valance.
The house at 31 Skene Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This house also appears to be associated with the Phillips family, who occupied the property from at least the 1920s until the late 1930s or 1940s.
Overall, the house at 31 Skene Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 31 Skene Street, STAWELL - Physical Description 1
The house at 31 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 typical front setback comprising a grassed area with perimeter garden beds and trees, and an introduced brick pedestrian path. The front is bound by an introduced, open horizontal paling fence that is approximately 1600 mm high.
The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal timber weatherboard, transitional Late Victorian/Edwardian styled house is characterised by a hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with a hipped roof and bullnosed verandah that project towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated steel. An early brick chimney (now overpainted) with a multi-corbelled top adorns the roofline. Narrow overhangs with paired timber brackets, panelling and paterae are features of the eaves. Other early features include the timber framed double hung windows, and the timber framed doorway with sidelights.
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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