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Location150 LYGON STREET, BRUNSWICK EAST, MORELAND CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? How is it significant? Why is it significant? Historically, as a tangible reminder of the commercial shopping strip at the southern end of Lygon Street in the late 19th century, to serve the needs of locals. (Criterion A)
The commercial building at 150 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, to the extent of its 19th-century fabric. This two-storey Victorian building of c1893 has brick walls, with render to the facade. Cement render ornamentation to the upper floor includes vermiculated window keystones and vermiculated blocks intersecting with the cornices terminating each floor and simple pilasters. The ground floor retains a partially intact 19th-century timber shopfront with decorative carving including barley twist colonettes and floral reliefs in the spandrels of the arched windows. The building is in good condition.
150 Lygon Street, Brunswick East, is of local architectural and historical significance to the City of Moreland.
Architecturally, for its rare surviving 19th-century shopfront, made all the more valuable by the very unusual and high quality carved detail to the timber elements. (Criteria B & F)
Group
Retail and Wholesale
Category
Shop