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STORE AND RESIDENCE

Other Name C.H JAMES & SONS REGISTERED BUILDERS & PLUMBERS Location 100A Whyte Street, COLERAINE VIC 3315 - Property No 11 File Number 493 Level Stage 2 study complete

[1/2] 23149 Wisharts Department [2/2] 23149 Wisharts Store Whyte St

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The store and residence at 100a Whyte Street is located on the north east corner of Gage and Whyte Streets, in the centre of Coleraine. The building comprises a single storey store and attached residence. The store has a symmetrical facade, with two entrances separated by a large display window. The entrance on the western side has been covered up with timber. There are also large display windows extending inwards from the corner of the building on the western and eastern corners. The store may originally have been divided in two, housing two separate businesses. The original store had two identical timber parapets which have been replaced by a single twentieth century gabled timber parapet spanning both sides of the store. The original display windows have been altered to make larger panes. The store and residence has been owned and operated by the James family since 1879, which makes it perhaps the longest running family business in Coleraine. The original trade of Tinsmith, plumber and building supply merchant has been carried into the twenty first century by the James family, who continue to operate similar trade from the premises at 100a Whyte Street.

How is it significant?
The store and residence at 100A Whyte Street Coleraine is of historical significance to the township of Coleraine and the Southern Grampians Shire.

Why is it significant?
The timber store and residence is of historical significance for its links to an important local family, the James' who have operated a trade in building and plumbing from the premises for over one hundred years continually. It is of further historical significance as one of a very small number of remaining nineteenth century retail premises in Coleraine with a largely intact original shopfront.