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Former Store, 96 Main Street, GREAT WESTERN
Location96 Main Street GREAT WESTERN, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The former store, 96 Main Street, Great Western, contributes to the significant, single storey, pitched roof central township area. This building also has significance as an intact example of an interwar Bungalow style, and was possibly constructed by the 1940s for Norm Houston. The former store, 96 Main Street, is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with commercial developments in Great Western in the interwar period (1920s-40s) and it demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar Bungalow style. These qualities include the recessed hipped roof form, together with a gable roof and broken back and skillion verandahs. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding (overpainted grey), modest eaves with exposed timber rafters, timber framed double hung window and timber framed doorway under the broken back verandah, panelled timber and glazed door and multi-paned timber framed shopfront and shingling under the skillion, and the timber verandah columns. Overall, the former store, 96 Main Street, is of LOCAL significance.
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Commercial
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