Wood St Commercial & Civic Precinct
Wood Street BEACONSFIELD, Cardinia Shire
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Statement of Significance
The mainly Edwardian-era Wood Street Commercial & Civic Precinct is significant to the Cardinia Shire because it provides evidence of the variety of buildings (shops, post office) and landscaping (elms) which made up the fabric of the Shire's early service centres, in this case Beaconsfield. The precinct is early, judged among other similar precincts within the shire, and the comparative completeness of the group allows scope to interpret the place historically, as part of the day to day lives of local people over a long period
Regional Significance
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Wood St Commercial & Civic Precinct - Physical Description 1
Content:
* Beaconsfield War Memorial, Wood Street, 1920 (q.v.);
* Beaconsfield Post Office & Residence, Wood Street, c1910 (verandahed, weatherboarded building with attached verandahed residence); * Elms (5), at the Maternal & Child Welfare (later non-contributory building), Wood Street;
* Beaconsfield Meat Supply, 23 Wood Street, c1920 (gabled over-painted brick with later cantilever verandah and new tiled front?);
* Heyley Eileen, 25 Wood Street, c1915 (weatherboarded gabled and hipped roof house, with verandah and remnant privet hedge);
* Wood n Craft, Wood Street, c1915 (weatherboarded parapeted shop with skillion street verandah and show windows) ; and
* House, 26 Wood Street, c1910.
This precinct Includes the post office and residence, the shops or stores further south on Wood Street, the war memorial and planting outside the health centre. This can still be recognised as an early commercial/civic centre in a town overtaken by more recent development.
Wood St Commercial & Civic Precinct - Physical Conditions
Many of the elements are externally near original.
Wood St Commercial & Civic Precinct - Historical Australian Themes
Historical Themes
8.4 Railway townships, e.g. Tynong, Pakenham
9.10 Post offices
Heritage Study and Grading
Cardinia - Cardinia Shire Heritage Study 1996
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 1996
Grading: Local
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