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The R.S.L. Clubrooms building,3 Scallan Street, Stawell, makes a significant contribution to the local area as its hilltop location, large allotment, garden setting and building scale make the clubrooms a landmark in the town. Built in 1898, the building also has significance as a reasonably externally intact example of a transitional Late Victorian Italianate and Federation style.
The R.S.L. Clubrooms building, 3 Scallan Street, is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a transitional Late Victorian Italianate and Federation style. These qualities include the complex hipped and gabled roof forms clad in slate. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, unpainted pressed red brick wall construction, two storey height, three unpainted red brick chimneys with rendered strapping, cornice tops and terra cotta pots, narrow eaves with plain rendered bands and worked timber brackets, rendered segmentally arched window and door label moulds and architraves, decorative stylised pediments above the first floor window on one of the projecting gables, timber framed double hung windows, cast iron window grills, rendered stringcoursing and bands that envelope the building, rendered brick wall base, terra cotta ridge decoration and finials, and the lattice timber gable infill. The garden setting also contributes to the significance of the place.
The R.S.L. Clubrooms building, 3 Scallan Street, is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with Edward Simmons, butcher, farmer and mine investor. He was one of the few made wealthy by the Stawell mines. He was also a benefactor to the town donating to the Stawell hospital and paying for the formation of the lake in Cato Park. It is also associated with Dr. Dunn, especially the early landscaped garden and with Mr. Strangio who built the Wimmera Cafe in the Gold Reef Mall. The building has been associated with the Returned Servicemen's League since the late 1940s and especially with the RSL Museum housed here.
Overall, the R.S.L. Clubrooms building, 3 Scallan Street, is of LOCAL significance. |
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