The property at 295 Main Street, Lilydale is significant. The form, scale and detailing of the modest Late Victorian commercial building is of local significance. The signage and shopfront detailing are not significant.

295 Main Street, Lilydale is of local historical and aesthetic significance to the township of Lilydale.

295 Main Street, Lilydale is a typical late-Victorian style brick shop on a narrow and very deep allotment that extends back to Warren Street.

 

295 Main Street, Lilydale is of historical significance to the township of Lilydale as a remnant Late Victorian commercial premises located on the Main Street of Lilydale, having occupied and operated from the site continually since 1889. The structure is a remnant example of Lilydale’s nineteenth century Main Street commercial precinct.

 

295 Main Street, Lilydale has aesthetic significance to the township of Lilydale as a restrained Late Victorian commercial premises. The store observes a small scale and is of simple design, being a single storey commercial premises with a hipped roof clad in corrugated metal sheeting and decorative parapet, ornamented with a stucco render drip mould.