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SHOP (FORMER) AND RESIDENCE

Location

42 BOWER STREET, NORTHCOTE, DAREBIN CITY

File Number

Darebin Database #348

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/2]
City of Darebin Heritage
[2/2]
City of Darebin Heritage

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The former corner shop and dwelling at 42 Bower Street, Northcote, built in 1889 by the builder Edwin Henry Good and used for a period as a green grocery.

How it is significant?
The former corner shop and dwelling at 42 Bower Street, Northcote is of local historical and aesthetic significance to the City of Darebin.

Why is it significant?
It is historically significant (Criterion A) as a surviving substantially intact comer store and residence, recalling the period up until the mid twentieth century when stores of this kind met the needs of a pedestrian based society and were as a consequence once commonplace throughout the suburbs established up until that time. The survival of the timber posted verandah and original shop front windows is unusual (Criterion B).

It is aesthetically significant (Criterion E) for the manner in which it addresses the comer, the splayed treatment and elevations to both streets enhancing its presence at the intersection.

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