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SHOP
Location151A LYGON STREET, BRUNSWICK EAST, MORELAND CITY LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Non original alterations and additions are not significant.
How is it significant?
Why is it significant?
The shop, constructed by 1935, at 151A Lygon Street, Brunswick
East is significant. This is a single-storey shop with afinely
detailed stepped parapet featuring geometric patterningin clinker
brick and render. It retains an original shopfront with metal-framed
windows, blue tiled stallboard, and a recessed entry with tiled floor
and a glazed timber door. The cantilevered verandah may be original
but has been boxed in.
The shop at 151A Lygon Street, Brunswick East is of local
architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.
It is significant as a representative example of an interwar shop,
which is notable for the high degree of intactness. The parapet,
withthedistinctive stepped profile and geometric patterning, which
demonstrates the influence of the Jazz Moderne or Art Deco style, and
retains the originalfinishesis a notable feature, and is complemented
by the original shopfront. (Criteria D & E)
Group
Commercial
Category
Shop