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Alexandria Tea Rooms

Location

26-34 Lydiard Street North,, BALLARAT CENTRAL VIC 3350 - Property No B1757

File Number

B1757

Level

State

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B1757 Alexandria Tea Room
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B1757 Alexandria Tea Rooms

Statement of Significance

Alexandria Tea Rooms was constructed apparently for the Commercial Club in 1872. A double storey cast iron verandah faces the building, with paired columns at each endsupporting the central gabled section, a motif repeated in the blaustraded parapet. The iron verandah balustrade is distinctive. Roman doric pilasters and columns face the ground floor and a triple window motif is repeated above.
Alexandria Tea Rooms forms part of an important streetscape and part of the townscape of historic Ballarat, is historically important and is of architectural consequence for its detailing and verandah. The building is designed in the Conservative Classical Revival style. The iron verandah is distinctive in design and the balustrade panel motif is most unusual and may be of local origin. The use of the triple window motif for the windows at first floor level is unusual.
Alexandria Tea Rooms are largely intact externally with the exception of modern shopfronts. Nothing of the interior remains.
Classified: 02/07/1964
Revised: 03/08/1998

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