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SHOP (FORMER) AND RESIDENCE

Location

70 Mitchell Street NORTHCOTE, Darebin City

File Number

Darebin Database #103

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The corner shop (former) and dwelling at no. 70 Mitchell Street, Northcote, built in 1903 for the labourer, Joseph Rycroft who ran a grocery store there for many years.

How is it significant?
The corner shop (former) and dwelling at no. 70 Mitchell Street, Northcote, is historically and aesthetically significant to Darebin City.

Why is it significant?
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a surviving operational comer store and residence, recalling the period up until the mid twentieth century when stores of this kind met the needs of a pedestrian based society and were as a consequence once commonplace throughout the suburbs established up until that time. The survival of the timber posted verandah is rare (Criterion B). It compares with nearby premises, now closed at 72 South Crescent and 58 Bastings Street.

It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) for its posted verandah, comer location and traditional architectural form.

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