WEATHERBOARD FORMER BANK BUILDING

What is significant?
The former bank building, the entire site and surrounding sites to a radius of ten metres.

How is it significant?
The bank building is historically and aesthetically significant to the Shire of Nillumbik.

Why is it significant?
The bank is historically significant as a rare example of an Edwardian one-room timber bank in Melbourne, as one of only two in the former Shire of Eltham (Criterion B). Also because it played a critical social function in the early days of the Shire; and the bank's relocation (from a site two blocks further up the street) illustrates the common practice of moving buildings to meet the changing needs of the community (Criteria A). The bank is historically and aesthetically significant because it is of a small size and decorated facade with a parapet, and because it is an integral component of a cluster of c1910 and c1920s structures that were constructed after the arrival of the railway in 1912, and which gives the centre of Hurstbridge its special character (Criteria A & E).

Group

Commercial

Category

Bank