SHOP

The shops at 42 and 86 Ridgway, Mirboo North, built in c.1895, are significant. They are simple Victorian timber shops with original timber framed shopfronts with timber stallboards and recessed entries and early panelled front doors. No. 86 retains an early sheeted parapet with a simple stepped parapet. The simple straight verandahs to both may be early but have been altered. 
Non-original alterations and additions are not significant.

The shop at 42 and 86 Ridgway, Mirboo North, are of local historic and representative significance to the South Gippsland Shire.

Historically, these shops are associated with the early development of Ridgway as the commercial centre of Mirboo North. Their significance is enhanced by their rarity values as the only early shops to survive. (Criterion A) 
The shops are significant for the original timber shopfronts, and for the early parapet to No. 86. (Criterion D)