SHOPS & RESIDENCES
431 & 433 SYDNEY ROAD,, COBURG VIC 3058 - Property No 38770
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The shops & residences, erected c.1883 and altered in 1889, at 431& 433 Sydney Road, Coburg are significant. This pair of shops hasrendered walls. The balustraded parapet has a pediment flanked by scrolls (this has been partially removed at no.431) and sits above a cornice and string course with frieze containing paired brackets and terminating in a vermiculated console with an elaborate bracket. The first windows are timber sash and have label moulds with scrollwork above. Two rendered chimneys with cornices and string courses sit along the side elevation. The ground floors of both shops have been altered.
Non-original alterations and additions are not significant.
How is it significant?
The shops at 431 & 433 Sydney Road, Coburg are of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.
Why is it significant?
It is significant as one of the oldest shop buildings in Coburg and illustrates an early phase of development of Sydney Road into an important commercial centre during the 1880s. (Criterion A)
It is significant as an distinctive nineteenth century building on a prominent corner site, which stands out amongst the later buildings within this part of Sydney Road. Details including theelaborate window mouldings and thepediment to no.433 are of note. (Criterion E)
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SHOPS & RESIDENCES - Physical Description 1
This is a pair of two-storeylate Victorian shops and residences on a corner site. The walls are rendered and the balustraded parapet has a pediment flanked by scrolls (this has been partially removed at no.431) that sits above a cornice and string course with frieze containing paired brackets and terminating in a vermiculated console with an elaborate bracket. The first windows are timber sash and have label moulds with scrollwork above. Two rendered chimneys with cornices and string courses sit along the side elevation.
Alterations including the apparent removalof the balustrade from along the side elevation,the replacementand enlargement of all ground floorshop fronts and the presumed replacement of original post-supported verandahs with cantilevered awnings.
The building is within a mixed commercialstreetscape of buildings, predominantly from the mid to latetwentieth century. Other late nineteenth century buildings in the vicinity include nos. 400-404, 425 and 436-442.
Heritage Study and Grading
Moreland - Moreland Heritage Gaps Study 2017
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2017
Grading: Local
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