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SHOP

Other Name

Review

Location

62 MAIN STREET, PAKENHAM, CARDINIA SHIRE

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?

The shop at 62 Main Street, built in 1953-54, is significant. It is a small freestanding brick shop, which was associated with the now altered mid-twentieth century house situated adjacent on what was originally the same allotment, but which is now subdivided onto a separate allotment.

The shop is a brick structure, noticeably smaller in scale than other more recent shops in the street. The main feature is the street-front, composed of a pair of brick piers terminated by brick corbelled tops flanking the shopfront and main high parapet. The shopfront is intact, featuring an off centre door within an angle-sided ingo, and metal framed windows above a masonry base.

How is it significant?

 The shop at 62 Main Street, Pakenham is of local historical and architectural significance to Cardinia Shire.

Why is it significant?

 It is of historical significance for its associations with the development of the commercial centre of Pakenham during the interwar period. Historical photographs show that small, single-fronted, street-front shops, isolated from one another by the house of the owner, or other houses, was the form of much of early Main Street. This practice was continued when the original Main Street weatherboard shops of early twentieth century were rebuilt in brick from the 1920s to the 1950s. This is now one of three two remaining interwar commercial buildings on the street frontage of Main Street, and demonstrates the beginnings of the expansion of the commercial centre northwards as the town grew. (Criteria A &D)

It is of architectural significance as a substantially intact shop complete with shopfront in a traditional interwar format. (Criterion D)

Group

Retail and Wholesale

Category

Shop