Former Shop and Dwelling, 48 & 48A Grant Street.

The Shop and Residence at 48 and 48A Grant Street, Bacchus Marsh.

How is it significant?

The Shop and Residence at 48 and 48A Grant Street, Bacchus Marsh are of local historical and aesthetic significance to the Shire of Moorabool.

Why is it significant?

The Shop and Residence at 48 and 48A Grant Street, Bacchus Marsh are of is of historical importance for demonstrating a prosperous period in the history of the Bacchus Marsh Shire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries stimulated by farming, industry and closer settlement. Along with other shops and associated residences in Grant Street from this period, this property contributes to a group of significant buildings that represent the early commercial development along Grant Street, stimulated by new residential development in the nearby Maddingley. It is significant as a representative embodiment of the way of life and the operation of food processing in the Edwardian period and for its associations with the locally important Alkemade family.

The Shop and Residence at 48 and 48A Grant Street, Bacchus Marsh are of aesthetic significance as an intact and rare surviving example of a combined detached shop and residence building type. It is also a rare surviving example of an early 20th century bakery building. The shop retains important early shopfront features such as the large display windows extending from mid wall height, the central recessed entry, framed highlight windows across the entire front, the curved rendered parapet and he skillion roofed verandah over the footpath with signage on the verandah barge board. The residence is of aesthetic significance as an interesting example of a domestic Edwardian style building constrained on an urban site, but with the complexity of a larger dwelling. The unusual v-profile timber fretwork to the front verandah is a particular feature of note.

Previous Statement

A detached Edwardian house with a complicated roof design, which with the adjoining shop (ref: 131) was built in 1909 to the design of the owner, Cornelius L.T. van Alkemade and leased to a baker, who operated a bakery in the adjacent shop.

It is of local historical significance as a representative embodiment of the way of life in the Edwardian period and for its association with the locally important Alkemade family. It is of local architectural significance as a representative, yet most interesting, example of the domestic Edwardian style, and of a surviving example of a building type, as a small town house on a constrained urban site.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House