66 Learmonth Street, Queenscliff
66 Learmonth Street QUEENSCLIFF, QUEENSCLIFFE BOROUGH
Central Queenscliff Precinct
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Statement of Significance
Statement of Significance as recorded under the Queenscliff Heritage Study 2009
No. 66 Learmonth Street is of historical and architectural significance to the Borough of Queenscliffe. Historically, it is a comparatively early example of a commercial building in Queenscliff, which retains the contrasting form and presentation of the two building components (shop and residence). The combination of commercial premises and attached residence is demonstrative of the way of life of such businesses in the township in the nineteenth century. The allotment is additionally of interest for its connection to George Tobin, Port Phillip's first official pilot, and to the Gane family, who operated a butcher's shop there for years. Architecturally, no. 66 Learmonth Street is a substantially externally intact example of a comparatively early commercial building, with its simple form and no setback to the street; the attached residence is less intact externally. The shop exterior is also resolved and finely detailed for a modest commercial building, enhanced by its trabeated asymmetrical facade with corniced parapet, and arched shop windows with fanlights, flanking the front entrance.
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66 Learmonth Street, Queenscliff - Physical Description 1
66 Learmonth Street is a parapetted, stuccoed brick shop. It has a trabeated asymmetrical facade, a parapet-cornice and originally possessed a skillion roofed and timber-posted verandah over the street. The arched shop windows possess part of their original glazing but the fanlights have been covered up. The door has been replaced and a timber residence added to the north.(9) The building represents the typical commercial design, used in Queenscliff during the I870s although it is within a residential area.
66 Learmonth Street, Queenscliff - Physical Description 2
Extract from the 2009 study
No. 66 Learmonth Street is a parapetted, rendered brick single-storey shop on a projecting plinth, with no setback to the street. It has a trabeated asymmetrical facade and a corniced parapet with a sheet metal-clad hipped roof behind. Arched shop windows flank the front entrance. These arched windows incorporate part of their original glazing; the fanlights have been recently restored having been previously covered up. The third window to this elevation is a timber double hung sash and has a moulded render surround. The entrance door has been replaced, and the building has been repainted. The shop originally featured a skillion roofed verandah with timber posts over the pavement (removed).
The weatherboard residence attached to the north side of the shop is also single storey. This section of building has a non-original Federation style verandah wrapping around its three external sides, and modified windows to the corner of the building. It is set back from the street behind a painted brick wall, which is punctuated by brick piers which reveal a separate pedestrian entrance now bricked up.
There are two extensions to the rear of the shop section of the building. An entrance drive runs along the north boundary to the garage at the rear (west) of the site.
66 Learmonth Street, Queenscliff - Intactness
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Heritage Study and Grading
Queenscliffe - Queenscliffe Urban Conservation Study
Author: Allom Lovell & Associates P/L, Architects
Year: 1982
Grading:Queenscliffe - Queenscliffe Heritage Study
Author: Lovell Chen
Year: 2009
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