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SHOPS & RESIDENCES

Location

509-513 High Street NORTHCOTE, Darebin City

File Number

Darebin Database #358

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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City of Darebin Heritage
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City of Darebin Heritage

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The row of three identical shops at 509-513 High Street, Northcote, built in 1910 for the local agent/auctioneer Walter Spencer Stott.

How is itsignificant?
The row of three identical shops at 509-513 High Street, Northcote is aesthetically significant to Darebin City

Why is it significant?
The row of three shopsis aesthetically significant (Criterion E) as a prominent commercial terraced development in the late Victorian Classical Revival mode, the use of bi-chrome arches linking them stylistically with the Boom period some twenty years earlier. They are in these respects unusual in this section of high Street which is dominated by buildings representative of subsequent styles.

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