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CORNER SHOP (FORMER) & RESIDENCE
Other NameCafe Location103 ALBION STREET,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No 14877 LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Other non-original alterations and additions are not significant.
How is it significant?
Why is it significant? It is significant as a rare example of a late Victorian timber shop
and residence, which retains an original shop window. It is also
significant as a distinctive early building within this area.
(Criteria B, D & E)
The former shop and residence, constructed in 1884 for William
Lunn, at 103 Albion Street, Brunswick is significant. This late
Victorian former shop and residence is asymmetrical in plan and has a
typical hipped iron roof and weatherboard walls. The former shop is
contained within the projecting bay built to the street corner and
retains the original timber framed shop window with timber stallboards
and a recessed, stepped entry at one side lined with beaded horizontal
timber boards (the door has been replaced). Other original details
include one bi-chrome brick chimney and paired eaves brackets.The
timber post verandah is not original, but is reasonably sympathetic in
its form and detailing.
The former shop and residence at 103 Albion Street, Brunswick is
of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.
It is significant as a representative example of the local shops
that were established to serve the local needs of residents in
Brunswick at a time of major suburban growth in the nineteenth
century. Constructed by 1884, it is one of the oldest surviving corner
shops in Brunswick. (Criterion A)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
Residence