Stawell Median PriceThe House price is 13% lower than last year.
Surrounding suburbsStawell Median RentThe House rent is 3% lower than last year.
| | Map | Street view | Nearby property price | | Planning History: | | | Registered as Victorian heritage | Last updated on - August 27, 2004
Although altered, the house at 14 Seaby Street, Stawell, makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey, Victorian styled streetscape of Seaby Street between the railway line and Johnson Street. This house was built in 1882 for Richard Williams who had a substantial interest in local mining shares. The original form and detailing of the house is generally intact, although the central entrance portico was introduced during the interwar period (1920s or 1930s).
Although altered, the house at 14 Seaby Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the hipped roof forms, rendered brick wall construction, painted and lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, and symmetrical arrangement of windows about the central doorway on the front facade. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the rendered brick chimneys with multi-corbelled tops, timber framed windows, narrow eaves, and masonry quoinwork.
The house at 14 Seaby Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell during the prosperous years of the second half of the 19th century. In particular, this house has associations with Richard Williams, original owner who had purchased the land in 1878. With substantial interests in local gold mining shares, Williams had this house built in 1882.
Overall, the house at 14 Seaby Street is of LOCAL significance. |
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