2 High Street South

Location

2 High Street South KEW, BOROONDARA CITY

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?

2 High Street is a one and two-storey part-tuck-pointed brick and rendered shop residence, occupying a prominent corner site at the junction of High Street and Barkers Road. The building addresses the angled corner site with a prominent first floor oriel window to the narrow corner overlooking the intersection. It features a high parapet wall, original chimneys, and Art Nouveau detailing.

How is it significant?

2 High Street is of historical and aesthetic (architectural) significance to the City of Boroondara.

Why is it significant?

The shop at 2 High Street is of significance as a good and externally intact example of a brick corner shop-residence of the early twentieth century. It demonstrates the general characteristics of the type, in this case on a corner site, and retains the original arrangement of shop front and residential entry (to the first floor residence) relatively unaltered. Despite the impact of the overpainting of the brickwork and render and some changes at ground floor level, the building retains a high level of design quality. It is a handsome building on a prominent corner site with distinctive high parapet, partly stepped, picturesque arrangement of chimneys, oriel corner bay in pressed metalwork, and finely executed Art Nouveau detailing, which includes the ornate metal verandah brackets and lattice work.

Group

Retail and Wholesale

Category

Shop