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SHOPS & RESIDENCES
Location431 & 433 SYDNEY ROAD,, COBURG VIC 3058 - Property No 38770 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 an distinctive nineteenth century building on a
prominent corner site, which stands out amongst the later buildings
within this part of Sydney Road. Details including theelaborate window
mouldings and thepediment to no.433 are of note. (Criterion E)
The shops & residences, erected c.1883 and altered in 1889, at
431& 433 Sydney Road, Coburg are significant. This pair of shops
hasrendered walls. The balustraded parapet has a pediment flanked by
scrolls (this has been partially removed at no.431) and sits above a
cornice and string course with frieze containing paired brackets and
terminating in a vermiculated console with an elaborate bracket. The
first windows are timber sash and have label moulds with scrollwork
above. Two rendered chimneys with cornices and string courses sit
along the side elevation. The ground floors of both shops have been altered.
The shops at 431 & 433 Sydney Road, Coburg are of local
historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.
It is significant as one of the oldest shop buildings in Coburg
and illustrates an early phase of development of Sydney Road into an
important commercial centre during the 1880s. (Criterion A)
Group
Retail and Wholesale
Category
Shop