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Shop, 25 Napier Street, ST ARNAUD
Location25 Napier Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The shop building at 25 Napier Street, St. Arnaud, makes a significant architectural contribution to the predominantly Victorian and Federation streetscape. Although the exact date of construction for this building is not known, the design suggests that it was constructed in the early 20th century. In the early 1930s, and possibly earlier, this building housed a tailoring business conducted by Bill Taylor. The front exterior of the building appears to be reasonably intact. The shop building at 25 Napier Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original or appropriate commercial design qualities for the early 20th century. These qualities include the dominant parapet, having a central projecting pediment with segmentally arched title panel below, and flanking solid parapets with incised rectangular panels and concrete cappings with a lined of projecting bricks at regular intervals. Other intact qualities include the single storey height, rendered brick wall construction, rectangular parapet piers with projecting concrete cappings and decorative vertically oriented bricks, and the form of the broadly projecting bullnosed verandah and shopfronts, highlight and ingo. The shop building at 23 Napier Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with commercial developments in St. Arnaud in the early 20th century. Overall, the shop building at 23 Napier Street is of LOCAL significance.
Group
Commercial
Category
Shop