Shops
386-388 Malvern Road PRAHRAN, Stonnington City
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Statement of Significance
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Shops - Physical Description 1
The building at 386-388 Malvern Road currently known as The Design Establishment was constructed as a pair of Victorian shops located on a busy suburban artery near the heart of Prahran. The character of this section of Malvern Road has been overwritten continually since the construction of these buildings. Today, the building is situated between a 1970s Police Station Complex and one of the many recent multi-storey residential developments that abound in the area. Schools, shops, residences and towering Housing Commission blocks occupy sites nearby while trams pedestrians and heavy vehicular traffic occupy the streets. These shops at 386-388 Malvern Road constitute an important remnant of the built fabric of early Prahran in this confused melange of styles, materials and usage. The premises are currently run as a single store.
The subject building is a single storey building whose symmetrical facade is built on the front boundary of the property. The original tuck pointed face brick has been painted burnt orange and an early cast iron verandah removed, but the facade appears, otherwise, to be in substantially original condition. Timber doors and large. display windows are set into large arched openings, flanked by brick piers which rise through the full height of the building. A small parapet with understated decorative trim partially conceals a hipped roof in modem steel.The shopfront is especially noteworthy for its arched timber window mullions and door joinery, and this comprises the major feature of interest to the building. While it is not certain that these date from the original construction they are at the very least remnants of an early, and 'very sympathetic refurbishment
Shops - Local Historical Themes
7.1 Serving local communities
Shops - Shopfront
Intact elements: 2 shopfronts, timber-framed with arched highlights and engaged columns, arched highlights to panelled door.
Heritage Study and Grading
Stonnington - City of Stonnington Heritage Overlay Report (Stages 1-5) 1998
Author: Bryce Raworth P/L
Year: 1998
Grading: A2Stonnington - Conservation Review City of Prahran Volume 4: A2 Buildings
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1993
Grading: A2Stonnington - City of Stonnington - Heritage Precincts - Intact Shop Fronts Survey 2012
Author: Context P/L
Year: 2012
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PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 1467Victorian Heritage Register H1032
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PRAHRAN TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0203
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FORMER POLICE STATION AND COURT HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0542
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