HOUSE AND SHOP

89-91 Lucan Street Bendigo comprising a combination of shop and house is significant. Significant components of the site include the 1880s residence and the remaining facade of the 1860s shop. 

89-91 Lucan Street Bendigo is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Greater Bendigo. 

89-91 Lucan Street is historically significant for its ability to demonstrate the increasingly rare nineteenth century commercial elements of Lucan Street. Its association with Thomas Pritchard, proprietor of the Adelaide Brewery from 1879 is of interest, the brewery operating from nearby premises at 111 Lucan Street in the 1860s. (Criterion A)

The combination of the commercial premises from the mid 1860s and the residence, once quite common in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, but is now unusual, particularly in a city edge location. Both buildings are nineteenth century landmarks in Lucan Street. (Criterion G)

89-91 Lucan Street demonstrates a fine example of commercial premises and attached residence despite its loss of building fabric behind the facade. Whilst this demolition has impacted heavily on the integrity of the site, the facade remains as key landmark in Lucan Street. The house is important for its late nineteenth century architectural character comprising a triangular pediment with urns, box bay window, verandah with cast iron frieze and the decorative gable above the verandah. The facade of the shop is significant for the richly rendered detail of string coursing and garlands, the large windows with rendered surrounds, chimneys, quoining and the entry door with label mould. The mid-Victorian residence is considered individually significant, as is the facade of the late-Victorian era shopfront. This property, despite its partial demolition has a particularly fine ornamental facade that contributes to the street's character. The remaining elements of the shop's facade are quite intact. (Criterion E)