GOLDSACK & HARDY HARDWARE STORE (FORMER)
1 STATION STREET, PAKENHAM, CARDINIA SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The corner building is brick faced, now painted. It is a complex shape made to fit the irregular site. The upper level is a rectangular structure parallel with Main Street, which is cut short where it meets the boundary on Station Street, and the splayed corner between the two streets. There is a toothed brick join in the wall of the upper floor where the corner section meets the other street facades. The tiled hipped roof is a standard shape over the rectangular section, while over the triangular section the ridge angles down where the two roof slopes meet, and there is a separate triangular section to accommodate the splayed corner, giving the whole roof a pyramidal appearance in views towards the corner. There is a small single storey section on the Station Street side, now the location of the doors. The upper floor windows, three on Main Street, and one on Station Street, are relatively small side-by-side pairs of double hung windows, while the splayed corner section is blank. The ground floor windows have all been lowered to the ground and new narrow shopwindows installed, but identify where the original windows were located as evidenced by the lintels visible above. The doors are also new. There is a cantilevered street verandah wrapping around the whole corner building.
Alterations and additions to the building are not significant.
How is it significant?
Why is it significant?
It is of aesthetic significance as a rare surviving commercial building that is a relic of the 'country town' era of Pakenham's growth, and for its prominence in the townscape. Its acute-angle corner site is possibly the most visually prominent location in the old Main Street commercial area. While not of architectural significance, the site and relative size of the building is imposing, and its triangular form capped by a tile roof slanting down to the corner lending a pyramidal appearance, is distinctive. After the Pakenham Hotel, this was one of the early two-storey buildings in the town.(Criterion E)
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Heritage Study and Grading
Pakenham Structure Plan Heritage Review
Author: David Helms Heritage Planning
Year: 2017
Grading: Local
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