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SHOP & RESIDENCE
Location425 SYDNEY ROAD, and 425A SYDNEY ROAD, COBURG, MORELAND CITY LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? Non-original alterations and additions including the ground floor
shopfronts, and the street verandahare not significant.
How is it significant?
Why is it significant? It is significant as an distinctive nineteenth century building,
which stands out amongst the later buildings within this part of
Sydney Road. (Criterion E)
The shop & residence, erected c.1885, at 425 Sydney Road, Coburg is
significant. This is a late Victorian two
storeycommercialbuilding.Theupper facade is framed by pilasters and has
asolidparapetwith anarched pediment flanked by scrolls and surmounted
byanacroterion, andorbs at either end. Below is a cornice
andstringcourse,and the pair oftimber sash windows have moulded
architravesandkeystones. The groundfloor has been altered.
The shop and residence at 425 Sydney Road, Coburg is of local
historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.
It is significant as one of the oldest shop buildings in Coburg
and illustrates an early phase of development of Sydney Road into an
important commercial centre during the 1880s. (Criterion A)
Group
Residential buildings (private)
Category
Residence