Shop
511 Victoria Street, ABBOTSFORD VIC 3067 - Property No 103685
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Statement of Significance
The following wording is from the Allom and Lovell Building Citation, 1998 for the property. Please note that this is a "Building Citation", not a "Statement of Significance". For further information refer to the Building Citation held by the City of Yarra.
History:
The shop at 511 Victoria Street, Abbotsford was built in 1860. Dick Mitchell operated a grocer's shop from this building from 1920 until 1969. Mitchell began working in the shop at a schoolboy in 1908, and bought the business and shop in 1920. In 1969, when the building was sold, the interior of the shop retained its original floor-to-ceiling shelving reached by ladder, wooden counters and antique scales. No alterations were made to the shop during Mitchell's ownership. At this time, the business was claimed to be Victoria's oldest one-person grocery business.
Description:
The corner shop at 511 Victoria Street, Abbotsford, is a simple double-storey building on a corner site. The walls are of Flemish bond face red brown brick with a bluestone plinth. The south elevation, to Victoria Street, has a door and large sixpane window to the ground floor, and two single windows to the first floor. The west elevation has, at ground floor level, another six pane window, a single window. There are two single windows at first floor level. The single windows all have brick voussoirs, bluestone sills and louvered timber shutters.
The roof is concealed behind a simple rendered, corniced parapet.
Significance:
The corner shop at 511 Victoria Street, Abbotsford, is of local architectural significance. The building is an unusually austere mid-Victorian retail building which contrasts with the more richly decorated facades of more contemporary shop architecture. The shopfront is a very rare surviving example of a Victorian shopfront.
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Shop - Physical Description 1
The corner shop at 511 Victoria Street, Abbotsford, is a simple double-storey building on a corner site. The walls are of Flemish bond face red brown brick with a bluestone plinth. The south elevation, to Victoria Street, has a door and large six-pane window to the ground floor, and two single windows to the first floor. The west elevation has, at ground floor level, another six pane window, a single window. There are two single windows at first floor level. The single windows all have brick voussoirs, bluestone sills and louvered timber shutters.
The roof is concealed behind a simple rendered, corniced parapet.Shop - Integrity
not assessed
Heritage Study and Grading
Yarra - City of Collingwood Conservation Study
Author: Andrew Ward & Associates
Year: 1989
Grading:Yarra - City of Collingwood Conservation Study
Author: Andrew Ward & Associates
Year: 1995
Grading:Yarra - City of Yarra Heritage Review
Author: Allom Lovell & Associates
Year: 1998
Grading: LocalYarra - City of Yarra Review of Heritage Overlay Areas
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 2007
Grading: Local
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FORMER CONVENT OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDVictorian Heritage Register H0951
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RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0142
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"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
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'CARINYA' LADSONS STOREVictorian Heritage Register H0568
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