Shop, 16 Kings Avenue, ST ARNAUD

Although somewhat altered, the building at 16 Kings Avenue is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian vernacular commercial style. These qualities include the hipped roof form clad in galvanised corrugated iron, with the rough hewn sandstone wall construction at the side. Other intact or early qualities include the parapetted brick front facade that is terminated at the sides by brick piers crowned by orbs, incised rectangular parapet panel, broadly projecting hipped roof clad in galvanised corrugated iron, window and door openings along the front facade, rendered window sills, timber and glazed double doors, and the altered brick chimney.

The building at 16 Kings Avenue is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with early commercial developments in St. Arnaud in the 19th century and more particularly with Samuel Joseph Edelston, a storekeeper from Liverpool who erected this building as a store in c.1860, a few years after arriving at the New Bendigo goldfields in 1855. Members of his family continued to run the store for almost 100 years.

The building at 16 Kings Avenue is scientifically significant at a LOCAL level. The rough hewn sandstone wall construction represents the best remaining example of this type of 19th century construction in St. Arnaud.

The building at 16 Kings Avenue is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and valued by the St. Arnaud community as one of the earliest commercial buildings in the town.

Overall, the building at 16 Kings Avenue, St. Arnaud, is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Commercial

Category

Shop