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SHOP
Location435 HIGH STREET, PRESTON, DAREBIN CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Later alterations and additions including the ground floor metal-framed shop window and cantilevered awning that extends across the facade between the ground and first floors are not significant. How is it significant? Why is it significant?
The Victorian rendered brick shop and residence, constructed c.1895, at 435 High Street, Preston is significant. The upper part of the facade is intact, retaining its original parapet that has a central panel flanked by pressed cement balusters. There are two cornices between the parapet and the heads of a pair of double-hung sash windows. Pilasters flank the window openings. The corners of the building, on the upper level, also have pilasters; the one to the south has been partially removed, probably when the adjoining single-storey Modernist shop was erected.
The shop and residence at 435 High Street, Preston is of local historic significance to Darebin City.
Historically, it is significant as one of a small number of surviving late nineteenth century shops in the High Street shopping centre, which illustrate the first phase of commercial development in the centre. (AHC criteria A.4, B.2, D.2)
Group
Retail and Wholesale
Category
Shop