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
The house at 41 Seaby Street, Stawell, makes a significant contribution to the predominantly single storey, Victorian styled streetscape of Seaby Street and has visual connections to the Grampians ranges. This house was built in c.1903 for William Henry and Edith Carter. William Carter was a local bootmaker and a popular and well-known identity in Stawell.
The house at 41 Seaby Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a transitional Late Victorian and Federation style. These qualities include the central dominant hipped roof form, together with the minor gambrel roof forms and a return skillion verandah that project towards the front and side. Other intact qualities include the timber wall construction simulating ashlar block masonry, asymmetrical composition, single storey height, lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, rendered brick chimneys with projecting cornice or multi-corbelled tops, narrow overhangs with worked timber brackets, rectangular panels and paterae, timber framed double hung windows and the cast iron ridge ornamentation and finials. The mature palm trees also contribute to the significance of the place.
The house at 41 Seaby Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with residential developments in Stawell during the Federation (c.1895-1915) period. In particular, this house has associations with William Henry Carter and his wife Edith (nee Akins), who instigated construction in c.1903. William Carter was a prominent citizen of Stawell, operating the family's long-standing boot shop in Main Street for 56 years. He was heavily involved with the Stawell Athletic Club, Progress Association, Traders' Association, Eureka Morning Star and MUIOOF Masonic Lodges and the Holy Trinity Church.
Overall, the house at 41 Seaby Street is of LOCAL significance. |
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