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CORNER SHOP (FORMER) & RESIDENCE
Location209 BARKLY STREET,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No 1448 LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Non-original alterations and additions are not significant.
How is it significant?
Why is it significant? It is significant as a fine, well-detailed and intact example of a
late Victorian shop and residence, which is notable for the elegant
Classical style detailing to the windows. (Criterion D & E)
The former shop and residence, constructed in 1889-90 for Henry
Tempany, at 209 Barkly Street, Brunswick is significant. This is a
double and single storey late Victorian former corner shop and
residence of typical parapetted form, built to both street boundaries
with a splayed corner. The ruled render walls are rendered with a
bluestone base and there is a low plain parapet above a deep cornice
and string course, whilst another cornice and string course divides
the two floors (consoles with masks are positioned midway on the
cornices on the long side elevation). At the corner dwarf piers
flanked by scrolls frame an arched pediment with the year of
construction. The double hung windows (and one blind corner window) to
the first floor and to the ground floor of the rear residence have
Classical style entablatures with cornices and brackets and shallow
sills with brackets, whilst the windows to the corner shop are tall
and narrow. The corner entrance has a top light, whilst the
residential entrance at the side is arched with a label mould, and has
a arched fanlight with coloured glass, sidelights and the original
panelled door with bolection mouldings and a bluestone threshold. All
of the openings have reveals with an ovolo profile terminating in a
stop chamfer.
The former shop and residence at 209 Barkly 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. (Criterion A)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
Residence