Arthurs Creek Store and Post Office, 910 Arthurs Creek Road ARTHURS CREEK
910 Arthurs Creek Road ARTHURS CREEK, NILLUMBIK SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
HERITAGE VALUE 2005: Local
SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT
What is significant?
Fabric associated with: . .
- the Victorian & Edwardian-eras
- William & George Murphy tenure
How is it significant?
The former Arthurs Creek Store and Post Office is historically significant to the
Nillumbik Shire and Arthurs Creek:
Why is it significant?
The former Arthurs Creek Store and Post Office is significant:
,.as a well preserved public building in the area for over 100 years (Criterion 4)
- for the close association with the pioneering Murphy family and proximity to other public buildings facilitated by the family's land gifts (Criterion H1)
- for the rare shopfront details and siting (Criterion B2).
- for strong evocation of the traditional store and post office building type within the Shire (Criterion D1)
- as a contributory part of a locally significant historic landscape and building group (Criterion A4)
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Arthurs Creek Store and Post Office, 910 Arthurs Creek Road ARTHURS CREEK - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
This former shop, post office & residence is set on a L-shape rectilinear plan, with a splayed corner entry at the south-east. The walls are clad with square edge weatherboard and corrugated iron covers the hipped main roof and sklllion form rear wings and verandahs. A deep timber-framed verandah runs across the rare 4-pane shopfront and a shallower verandah extends down the residential east side and south-west faces. Here the verandah post are square section with moulded capitals and cast-iron brackets but on the side the verandah posts are turned in the Edwardian-era manner but lack a decorative frieze. The two verandah forms mark the two stages of the building. The residential entry to the south has panelled joinery while the store entry has a vertical boarded door with top light. Windows are typically double-hung timber sashes and chimneys are red brick with corbelled tops. An ornamental picket fence with shaped post closes off the residential verandah, with the name 'Murphy' stencilled on a panel just inside the gate. Joinery around openings has the typical Victorian-era moulded architraves and a metal postal slot with hood is set in the wall as a reminder of the building's former function, along with the more-recent telephone box to the east.
Meredith Gould, Conservation Consultants. 1991: .
'The design and siting contribute to the past use to make this building the focus of the Arthurs Creek township. Its straight forward late Victorian timber details are adapted to the sloping site and angled road to produce quirky integration of house and attached shop reminiscent of Unplanned gold mining settlements. Particularly unusual is the splayed door to the shop commonly only employed on corner sites throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but here used to align with the road and mark the shop and Post Office. Reinforcing this peculiar placement is a veranda which partly occupies the public street land and partly the private land with a roof pitched with the hip at the splayed entrance.'
Other significant elements include an underground tank with corrugated iron roof at the rear.
Arthurs Creek Store and Post Office, 910 Arthurs Creek Road ARTHURS CREEK - Integrity
Integrity
Although in only fair condition, the building is near externally original to the Edwardian-era development phase, with only details missing or changed such as the verandah posts across the shopfront, the roof guttering (now filled with grass) and the (assumed) verandah frieze the verandah floor on the southwest is part rotted away.
Heritage Study and Grading
Nillumbik - C13 Heritage Stage 2 Final Report Revised Citation
Author: Graeme Butler and Assoc.
Year: 2001
Grading: LocalNillumbik - Whittlesea Heritage Study
Author: M Gould
Year: 1991
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