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Shops, 131-133 Napier Street, ST ARNAUD
Location131-133 Napier Street ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The brick shop building, 131-133 Napier Street, St. Arnaud, makes a significant architectural and visual contribution to the predominantly Victorian and Federation streetscape. This building has significance as an externally intact late 19th or early 20th century shop building. The brick shop building is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the commercial developments in St. Arnaud in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a Late Victorian/Federation commercial style. These qualities include the prominent two bayed brick parapet with crowning cement rendered shallow pediments, projecting parapet pilasters with stylised curved consoles (end pilasters only), projecting moulded parapet cornice and incised rectangular parapet signage panels adorned with corbelled dentillations along their upper reaches. Other intact qualities include the single storey height, skillion verandah, lapped galvanised corrugated iron verandah cladding, brick wall construction (but not overpainting), unpainted brick chimney with multi-corbelled top, stop chamfered timber verandah columns, timber framed shopfronts with ingoes, panelled timber and glazed doors, transoms, glazed tile surrounds and the painted butchery signage on the side brick wall. Overall, the brick shop building is of LOCAL significance.
Group
Commercial
Category
Shop