House, 33 Skene Street, STAWELL
33 Skene Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 33 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, being built in the late 19th or early 20th century. The house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.
The house at 33 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 forms, together with the hipped roof and bullnosed verandah that project towards the street frontage and returns along one side. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, brick chimneys with a multi-corbelled top, narrow eaves with timber brackets, timber framed double hung windows, front timber framed doorway with sidelights, timber verandah posts and the decorative timber verandah valance.
The house at 33 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.
Overall, the house at 33 Skene Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 33 Skene Street, STAWELL - Physical Description 1
The house at 33 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 allotment and has typical front and side setbacks comprising well-planted areas of hedging and other shrubbery. There is an introduced gabled lychgate that addresses the corner location, together with introduced brick paving and perimeter garden beds.
The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal weatherboard, transitional Late Victorian/Edwardian styled house is characterised by a recessive hipped roof form, together with a hipped roof that projects towards the street frontage and a return bullnosed verandah that projects at the front and side. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron (painted). Two early painted brick chimneys with corbelled tops adorn the roofline. Narrow overhangs with timber brackets are features of the eaves.
A feature of the design is the arched timber fretwork verandah valances. Other early features include the timber framed double hung windows (including the tripartite window on the projecting hipped wing), and the timber framed front doorway with sidelights and highlight.
The long skillion side wing (recessed from the front of the house) represents a later 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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