The shop and residence at 90-92 Main Street, Pakenham, which comprises a
brick house built 1938-39 set back from the streetfrontage, and a brick
shop on the street frontage that was added in 1953-54, is significant.
The red brick house was probably a typical bungalow form, with
theoriginal porch now in the corner between the house and shop
extension, and there is a new entry marked by a pair of Doric columns
down the driveway. The wide shallow bay window with inward slanting
glass is distinctive and along with the door is original to 1954.
How is it significant?
The shop and residence at 90-92 Main Street, Pakenham is of local
historical, aesthetic and architectural significance to Cardinia Shire.
Why is it significant?
It is of historical significance at the local level for its associations
with the development of the commercial centre of Pakenham during the
interwar and early post-war 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 50s. This is one of three remaining small shops on the
street frontage of Main Street that are associated with a house and the
combination of the interwar house with a post-war shop illustrates the
beginnings of the transition of this part of Main Street from
residential to commercial in the early post-war period. (Criteria A
&D)
It is of architectural significance for its distinctive and
intact shallow bay windowed shopfront, original shop door, and the
unusual entry porches, framed by Doric columns. (Criterion E)
