Fred Crouch & Sons, Funeral Parlour, 42A Main Street, STAWELL

The Funeral Parlour at 42A Main Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Although relocated and partially altered, it still demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian style. These qualities include the rectangular form with its simple pitched roof behind the front parapet that features a central rudimentary parapet adorned with a decorative moulding at its apex. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, dentillated cornice flanked by fluted consoles having round vermiculated round-arched heads, and the plain front facade, timber framed double hung window opening, and the single doorway.

The Funeral Parlour at 42A Main Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of the undertaking business established by Henry Crouch in 1857 and continued by members of the Crouch family until at least the 1970s. Other family members involved in carrying out the business include Fred Crouch senior between the early 1880s and 1944, and Fred Crouch junior from 1944 until 1970.

The Funeral Parlour at 42A Main Street is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised by sections of the Stawell community for cultural reasons.

Overall, the Funeral Parlour at 42A Main Street is of LOCAL significance.

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Community Facilities

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Other - Community Facilities