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SHOP & RESIDENCE

Location

707 High Street THORNBURY, Darebin City

File Number

Darebin Database #334

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/2]
City of Darebin Heritage
[2/2]
City of Darebin Heritage

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The shop and dwelling at 707 High Street Thornbury, built c.1910. The upper level facade is the principal element contributing to the significance of the place.

How is it significant?
The shop and dwelling at 707 High Street Thornbury is aesthetically significant to Darebin City.

Why is it significant?
It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a prominent and ostentatious early building in this section of High Street bearing testimony to the commercial growth sustained as a consequence of the opening of the cable tramway route to Dundas Street in 1890.

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