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The shop building at 56A Mount Pleasant Road is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar vernacular shopfront style. These qualities include the high brick walls and parapet, and large projecting timber framed shopfront window and recessed door. Other intact qualities include the interwar Stripped Classical square, perimeter piers that rise the full height of the building, and the rectangular wall and parapet recession containing the name "Prendergast and Gace, Fine Biscuits". The building also a makes a significant contribution to the Edwardian and interwar Californian Bungalow streetscape.

The shop building at 56A Mount Pleasant Road is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the subdivision of part of Alexander Thomson's "Kardinia" farm into the Kardinia Extended Estate, and with the commercial developments in Belmont during the interwar period. It is also associated with the local Geelong builder, Eric Lyons, who designed and constructed this building, and with Percival Bleasdale, first owner and operator of the confectionary shop.

Overall, the shop building at 56A Mount Pleasant Road is of LOCAL significance.

REFERENCE

1. Shire of South Barwon Rate Books, 1924-25, 1936-37, 1937-38.

2. Sands & McDougall's Directory of Victoria, 1934, 1939, 1957, 1972.

3. I. Wynd, 'Environmental History: Greater Geelong Outer Areas Heritage Study', vol.2.

4. Drainage Plans and Inspector's Reports, 1929, Barwon Water Profis system.

5. Kardinia Extended Estate Subdivision Plan, 24 October, 1891, B5/100, Geelong Historical RecordsCentre.

6. Interview by Rowe & Huddle with Mr Eric Lyons, retired Geelong Builder, 3 March, 1999.

Group

Retail and Wholesale

Category

Shop