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COLLINS CORNER
Location774 HIGH STREET, THORNBURY, DAREBIN CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? The single storey wing to the rear and non-original alterations and/or additions are not significant. How is it significant? Why is it significant?
Collins Corner, a c.1950 Moderne commercial building on the northeast corner of High Street and Collins Street, is significant. It retains many notable original elements including its early shopfront detailing, distinctive curved hood above the first floor metal-framed windows, the curved cantilevered awning with the name of the building in raised letters, and steel frame windows with horizontal bands set in a liver brick band.
Collins Corner at 774 High Street, Thornbury is of local architectural significance to Darebin City.
It is architecturally significant as a good example of mid-twentieth century Modernist commercial architecture in Darebin, which retains many distinct original elements including its distinctive curved hood above the first floor windows, the curved cantilevered awning, and steel frame windows set in a liver brick band. (AHC criterion D.2)
Group
Retail and Wholesale
Category
Shop