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GROCER'S SHOP (FORMER) & RESIDENCE

Location

102 ELIZABETH STREET,, RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No 144475

File Number

Y2011:1240

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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RICHMOND ELIZABETH STREET

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The former grocer's shop and residence at 102 Elizabeth Street, Richmond is significant to the extent of its nineteenth century fabric. It is a Boom-style two-storey rendered brick building with a splayed corner entrance and balustraded parapet. The corner splay has a round centrepiece with a scallop-shell, acroterion and scroll-brackets over the vermiculated blind first-storey window, with an embossed shield motif. The square parapet balustrading is between piers. All first-storey windows have round heads and architrave moulds. There is a deep cornice and frieze between corbels at parapet and first floor level, with a string-course mould between first-storey windows. There is a large four-bay extension in Lennox Street, also with round head first-storey windows, but otherwise plain. "Grocer 102 Grocer" is embossed on the frieze (covered over) and most of the timber shop windows survive.

Non-original alterations and additions are not significant.

How is it significant?
The former grocer's shop and residence at 102 Elizabeth Street, Richmond is architecturally and aesthetically significant to the locality of Richmond and the City of Yarra.

Why is it significant?
The former grocer's shop and residence is architecturally and aesthetically significant (Criteria D & E) as a representative example two-storey rendered early Boom-style corner shop and residence with characteristic detailing including splayed shopfront entrance and parapet balustrading and pediment, which is notable for retaining most of the original timber shopfronts and an embossed sign that demonstrates its historic use since it was built.

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