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SHOP (FORMER) & RESIDENCE
Location105 MUNRO STREET,, COBURG VIC 3058 - Property No 88178 LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Non original alterations and additions including the verandah to the
house are not significant.
The former shop and house, constructed in 1912, at 105 Munro
Street, Coburg is significant. Situated on a corner site, the house is
a large double fronted weatherboard Edwardian villa with a deep
corrugated iron half-gabled roof and an incorporated verandah. It has
two red brick chimneys. The front door has side and highlights with a
large window to the left of the front facade. To the right is the
shop, which projects from the house to the properties boundary. Side
windows are double hung sashes with corrugated iron roofed awnings
with decorative carved timber brackets.The shop is a small
weatherboard building with a gabled corrugated iron roof. The gable
line has simple carved bargeboards. The shop front has a corrugated
iron roofed verandah supported by square section timber posts which
project into the sidewalk. The shop windows are original with vertical
weatherboard cladding underneath. The front door is a four panel
timber door.
How is it significant?
The former shop and house at 105 Munro Street, Coburg is of
localhistoric significance to the City of Moreland.
Why is it significant?
It is significant as a good and reasonably intact example of a
combined corner shop and residence which were once common in Coburg
and surrounds. It demonstrates the retail facilities built in response
to the suburban development of Coburg in the early twentieth
century.(Criteria A, B & D)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
Residence