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Shop, 119 Napier Street, ST ARNAUD
Location119 Napier Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The former Bray's Furniture Store, 119 Napier Street, St. Arnaud, makes a significant architectural contribution to the architectural and visual amenity of the predominantly Victorian and Federation streetscape. This building appears to have been construction in 1875 for William Bray, a local and long-time businessman. Extensions and alterations to the building appear to have been carried out in 1923. The former Bray's Furniture Store is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a rudimentary Victorian Free style. These qualities include the tall single storey composition, brick wall construction, and particularly the parapet with a central styled pediment decorated by flanking and crowning console motifs and an urn.Other intact qualities include the wide, moulded parapet stringcourse; two rectangular panels in the first floor walls; timber framed ground floor highlights; timber and glazed double doors; dark green glazed shopfront tiles (to door height) and the projecting bullnosed verandah, clad in painted galvanised corrugated iron and supported by original fluted cast iron columns with decorative capitals and brackets. The adjacent lane way also contributes to the significance of the place. The former Bray's Furniture Store is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with William Bray, local businessman who had emigrated from Cornwall, and his sons. William Bray was responsible for the construction of this building, which operated as a furniture store from c.1875. The building has also been associated with T. & T. Motors from the 1950s until recent years. The former Bray's Furniture Store is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised by the St. Arnaud community as one of the early commercial buildings in the town originally owned by the well-known Bray family.
Group
Commercial
Category
Shop