Shops and Residences at 30-32 Parker Street

The shops and residences at 30-32 Parker Street, Williamstown are of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay.

Historically, they demonstrate the historic development of minor shopping centres in Williamstown adjacent to Nelson Place at a time when the port was the focus of the town. (AHC criteria A4 and D2)

Aesthetically, they are significant as a near original timber shop pair in a common commercial form but distinguished by its timber ornament, in contrast to the common stucco type and the whole timber construction, which is unusual for surviving commercial architecture. They also possess valuable shop front details and contribute to an isolated early commercial group that includes the former shop at No 28. (AHC criteria B2, E1 and F1)

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House