FORMER LISTER AND ANGEL FRUITERER SITE

 The area was first mapped in as allotment 17, 18, and 18A of Section D Main Road Ballarat. The site is within Ballarat’s first commercial precinct and between two of the first alluvial gold fields mined in the initial rush. The had four commercial uses as a watchmaker/ dentist and fruiter prior to the destructive first in 1859. The site was developed into two two-story buildings following the fire; however, it is unknown what commercial use they had throughout the later nineteenth century. 

 The site is of historical and archaeological significance. 

 The site is of historical significance as the location of an early residence and commercial precinct during the years of the Victorian gold rush – one of the most significant rushes in world history. The site is of archaeological significance due to its potential to contain artefacts, deposits and features that relate to the establishment of commercial operations in the gold rush, and other later 19th-century activities.