Shop, 124 Napier Street, ST ARNAUD

Although it has experienced some alterations, the building at 124 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 pediment flanked by unpainted brick piers with concrete cappings and rendered rectilinear dressings. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, unpainted and rendered brick wall construction, segmentally arched title panel in the central pedimented parapet, flanking lower pediments with rendered concrete cappings and stylised dentillations below which are regularly spaced vertically-proportioned rebates, unpainted brick piers of identical design and construction as the central parapet piers, broadly projecting bullnosed verandah clad in striped painted galvanised corrugated iron, cast iron columns on shallow bluestone pedestals and decorated with capital moulds, unusual brackets with trefoil motifs and other unusual ornate ironwork, ground floor shopfront proportions, shopfront ingo and timber framed and glazed double doors.

The building at 124 Napier Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with commercial developments in St. Arnaud in the early 20th century and more particularly with the Brain family who owned the adjacent two-storey building and purchased and altered the present building to become part of their commercial activities.

Overall, the building at 124 Napier Street, St. Arnaud, is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Commercial

Category

Shop