FORMER BP DRIVE-IN SERVICE STATION
548 BELL STREET,, PRESTON VIC 3072
Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The former BP drive-in service station, built c.1950, at 548 Bell Street, Preston is significant. The design, original external detailing and siting of the building behind an open forecourt contributes to the significance of the place.
Non-original alterations and additions to the c.1950 building, later buildings on the site and signage are not significant.
How is it significant?
The former BP drive-in service station at 548 Bell Street, Preston is of local historic and architectural significance to the City of Darebin.
Why is it significant?
The former drive in service station at 548 Bell Street, Preston is historically significant as a building that is associated with the phenomenal growth in motor car ownership and the development of associated facilities following the Second World War. (Criterion A)
The former drive in service station at 548 Bell Street, Preston is architecturally signifiicant as a representative example of the kerb side design of service stations that emerged as a new building type in the inter war period. It provides evidence of the moderne streamlined design that was influenced by motor car design and by the need for a new form of building type to be designed in the most up to date styles, many with art deco characteristics. The significance of the place is enhanced by its rarity value as the only known example of this type in Darebin and one of the few early examples to survive in the metropolitan area (Criteria B & D)
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Notes See all notes
Title and body text are incorrect...
Chris Keating • 13/05/15
When it operated, this was an Ampol service station, not BP! Until some fifteen years ago, the Ampol sign, and an Ampol petrol pump, were still in place.
Public contributions
Notes See all notes
Title and body text are incorrect...
Chris Keating • 13/05/15
When it operated, this was an Ampol service station, not BP! Until some fifteen years ago, the Ampol sign, and an Ampol petrol pump, were still in place.
