FORMER VICTORIA STORE
145-147 HIGH STREET, KANGAROO FLAT - PROPERTY NUMBERS 238051, 238061, 197461, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
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Statement of Significance
Aesthetically and architecturally (Criterion E), the fabric of the property encompasses Kangaroo Flat development from the 1870s and later. The 1870 building frontage to High Street, although altered and extended, retains its parapet and cornice. The property is also distinguished through its association with the largely externally intact two-storey gabled building at the rear. This building, with its tight footprint and verticality, suggests the early Italianate proportioning of two-storeyed 1860s railway stations.
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FORMER VICTORIA STORE - Physical Description 1
The Victoria Store comprises a single-storey brick building at nos 143-147 High Street, and a two-storey brick building at the rear. The High Street frontage of numbers 143-47 High Street has a simple stuccoed parapet and cornice with plain frieze, relieved by a single cyma recta string course moulding. The shopfronts were originally in exposed face brick; nos 145-147 were later clad to door height level with square ceramic tiling, relieved by a strip of repeated art deco patterning. Although now overpainted, these appear interwar in their embossed outlines; the door furniture also appears to be from the 1930s. The shop front of no. 143 is also modified, with a chromium-plated trim window, possibly dating to the 1950s or '60s. The arched wall vents below the shop windows also appear to date to the interwar period, as do the square wall vents lower down. The non-original High Street awning is cantilevered, with a more recent fascia and a set of thin posts designed to make the awning read as a lean-to verandah.
To the rear of no. 145 High Street is a largely externally intact two-storey brick building, on a narrow rectilinear plan, with a timber skillion-roofed attachment (lean-to) and a single ridge gable roof and
gable coping treatment characteristic of the area. The roof is clad in corrugated galvanised steel; the two chimneys at the north end are in unpainted cream brick. The brick walling is overpainted. Its three east-facing windows are double-hung sashes, with cambered soffits and stone or rendered sills. There is a single similar window under the south gable. The lean-to windows are probably later, with timber reveals. A steel and timber framed fence with crimped steel sheet panels separates the two-storey building from the rear yard. The two-storey component (and perhaps its timber and weatherboard lean-to) may originally have been separate from the shop fronts but is now attached to the back of the shops.
The buildings appear to be in generally sound condition.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Bendigo - Heritage Policy Citations Review
Author: Lovell Chen P/L
Year: 2011
Grading: Local
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