Former Shop and Dwelling (Seery & Associates Certified Practising Accountants.)
48 and 48A Grant Street BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
A detached Edwardian shop with an intact timber shopfront, built in 1909 to the design of the owner Cornelius L.J. van Alkemade and leased as a bakery.
It is of local historical significance as a representative embodiment of the way of life and the operation of food processing in the Edwardian period and for its association with the locally important Alkemade family. It is of local architectural significance as a representative surviving example of a building type, as bakery or shop.
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Former Shop and Dwelling (Seery & Associates Certified Practising Accountants.) - Physical Conditions
Good
Former Shop and Dwelling (Seery & Associates Certified Practising Accountants.) - Intactness
Good. The tuckpointed brickwork has been painted, the shopfront brickwork has been rendered. It lacks one finial. There is a brick addition at left rear in the lightwell. But the side entrance door even retains its keyhole plate.
SIGNIF1CANT IN'TACT ELEMENTS:
FACADE. VERANDAH.
PARAPET DECORATION.
CHIMNEYS. (2). WINDOWS. CONTEXT 130
Former Shop and Dwelling (Seery & Associates Certified Practising Accountants.) - Physical Description 1
A red brick Edwardian double-fronted shop complex. It has a high Baroque parapet, with a wavy top and bud-shaped finials on the side piers and within the broken top moulding . The timber verandah extends across the footpath , with valance and Doric mouldings to posts. The timber shopfront has a canted entry recess. At the rear, within a step in the boundary line is a skillion-roofed brick stables(?) outbuilding with an old sliding door. At left, there is an entrance door to Pilmer Street, whose footpath is paved with diamond shaped pre-cast concrete pavers.
Former Shop and Dwelling (Seery & Associates Certified Practising Accountants.) - Usage/Former Usage
USE: Office.
I'REVIOUS USE: Bakery.
Former Shop and Dwelling (Seery & Associates Certified Practising Accountants.) - Historical Australian Themes
Townships.
Heritage Study and Grading
Moorabool - Bacchus Marsh Heritage Study 1995
Author: Richard Peterson and Daniel Catrice
Year: 1995
Grading:
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RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0503
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BACCHUS MARSH EXPRESS OFFICE AND PRINTING WORKSVictorian Heritage Register H0504
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FORMER CHRISTOPHER CRISP RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0505
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