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MAHONEY'S SHOP, RESIDENCE & STABLES

Location

66 LENNOX STREET,, RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No 149490

File Number

Y2011:2199

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Mahony's shop, residence and stables at 66 Lennox Street, Richmond is significant to the extent of its 1905 fabric. Built for James Mahone in 1905, the shop and dwelling is a two-storey red brick corner shop. It has a parapet with double reverse ogee undulations between the piers; the York Street bay steps down with a cavetto, as the cornice terminates. There is an open pediment on the corner splay. A deep cornice and frieze mould, is above rendered piers which are supported on Corinthian pilasters, which terminate as Jacobean corbels. There is a rare surviving metal convex cantilever canopy around the corner bays and two intact timber shop windows beneath, with perforated cast-iron soffit panels. The detached brick stable was also built in 1905 with a loft and gantry, and is significant.

Non-original alterations and additions to the buildings are not significant.

How is it significant?
Mahony's shop, residence and stables at 66 Lennox Street, Richmond is aesthetically and historically significant to Richmond and the City of Yarra.

Why is it significant?
Mahony's shop, residence and stables is historically significant (Criterion A):

. as a characteristic shop, residence that is notable for retaining the original stables, which demonstrates how deliveries were made to local residents by horse-drawn vehicles in the pre-World War II era.

Mahony's shop, residence and stables is aesthetically significant (Criterion E):

. as a fine, two-storey, early Edwardian corner red brick shop with unusual decoration, some residual Boom style characteristics and a Jacobean influence. It includes surviving shop front, and a rare early cantilevered verandah and is complemented by the original stables.

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