House, 42 Skene Street, STAWELL
42 Skene Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The house at 42 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 Late Victorian style and appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.
The house at 42 Skene Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the recessive hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with the gable roof and hipped bullnosed verandah that project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, brick chimneys with corbelled tops, narrow eaves with timber brackets, panelling and paterae, turned timber verandah posts and timber fretwork verandah valances, timber framed double hung windows (including the tripartite window under the verandah) and the timber framed front doorway. The front timber picket fence also contributes to the significance of the place.
The house at 42 Skene Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell in the late 19th or early 20th centuries.
Overall, the house at 42 Skene Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House, 42 Skene Street, STAWELL - Physical Description 1
The house at 42 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 modest front setback defined by flowers, shrubbery and some trees. There is also an introduced but appropriate timber picket fence (approximately 1500 mm high) that forms the front boundary.
The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal timber weatherboard, Late Victorian styled house is characterised by a recessive hipped roof form that traverses the site, together with a gable roof and a hipped bullnosed verandah that project towards the street frontage. These roof forms are clad in green-painted galvanised corrugated iron. At the rear are single storey gabled additions also clad in galvanised corrugated iron. Painted brick chimneys with corbelled tops adorn the roofline. Narrow overhangs with timber brackets, panelling and paterae are features of the eaves.
An early feature of the design is the verandah that is supported by turned timber posts with decorative, framed timber valances. Other early features include the timber framed double hung windows (including the tripartite window under the verandah) and the timber framed front doorway. There is also a window hood over the window on the projecting gable.
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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