House - 'Kemsley', 2 Wimmera Street, STAWELL
2 Wimmera Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
'Kemsley', 2 Wimmera Street, Stawell, has significance as an intact example of a Late Victorian style. Probably built in the late 19th or early 20th century, the house appears to be in good condition when viewed from the street.
'Kemsley', 2 Wimmera Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell in the late 19th century. The house also demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian style. These qualities include the central hipped roof form, together with the minor hipped roofs that project at the front and side, and the return verandah that accentuates the front corner. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated steel roof cladding, painted brick chimney with a corbelled top, narrow eaves with timber brackets, stop chamfered timber verandah posts, decorative cast iron verandah brackets and valances, timber framed double hung windows and the timber framed doorway with highlight.
'Kemsley', 2 Wimmera Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In particular this house appears to have associations with Henry Clifford Bate, Mining Surveyor. Bate had this house built in 1890 by W. A. Whitford.
Overall, 'Kemsley', 2 Wimmera Street is of LOCAL significance.
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House - 'Kemsley', 2 Wimmera Street, STAWELL - Physical Description 1
The house at 2 Wimmera Street, Stawell, is set on a corner allotment and has a landscaped garden comprising some mature trees, brick pedestrian path, open grassed areas and perimeter flower/garden beds.
The asymmetrical, single storey, horizontal timber weatherboard, Late Victorian styled house is characterised by a central hipped roof form, together with minor hipped roofs that project at the front and side, and a return verandah that accentuates the front corner. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated steel. An early painted brick chimney with a corbelled top adorns the roofline. Narrow overhangs with timber brackets are features of the eaves.
An early feature of the design is the return verandah. It is supported by stop chamfered timber posts and is adorned with decorative cast iron verandah brackets and valances.
Other early features of the design include the timber framed double hung windows and the timber framed doorway with highlight. The window hoods above the windows under the projecting hipped roof forms appear to have been introduced.
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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