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SHOP & RESIDENCE
Location283 HIGH STREET, PRESTON, DAREBIN CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? The ground floor metal-framed shop window and cantilevered awning that extends across the facade between the ground and first floors are not significant. How is it significant? Why is it significant?
The two storey Victorian rendered brick shop and residence, constructed c.1895, at 283 High Street, Preston is significant. A relatively high parapet on the east (High Street) elevation, with a central panel flanked by horizontal console elements, conceals the building's corrugated galvanised steel clad roof from view from the street. A projecting cornice extends across the east elevation below the parapet, and below this are the two windows of the upper level. They have timber framed double-hung sash windows, with moulded consoles and a cornice above each. A sill projects out slightly below each window and beneath this are rectangular panels. Part of the south elevation is visible, which is faced in red brick and there is a cement rendered brick chimney with a moulding at its top.
The shop and residence at 283 High Street, Preston is of local historic significance to Darebin City.
Historically, it is significant as evidence of the limited speculative commercial development that occurred in High Street north of Bell Street during the late nineteenth century and recalls the practice of small shops with residences above built to serve local neighbourhoods within walking distance. The significance of the place is enhanced by its rarity value as one of the few surviving examples of this era. (AHC criteria A.4, B.2, D.2)
Group
Retail and Wholesale
Category
Shop