"Redpath's Antiques"
327 Shannon Avenue, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 204806
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Statement of Significance
B Listed - Regional Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCEThese stables have great regional historical significance because of their associations with William Walkers omnibus service, which played such an important role in the early development of transport in the Geelong district. They were constructed in 1895 for Walker, who ran his bus service from there until November 1901. Arthur Nicholls Vines, proprietor of the Cobb and Co. coaching service, briefly ran a bus service from there and from 1911 until the middle 1920s, Frank Lloyd Hooper, founder of the Hooper grocery stores, used the building as stabling and a shop. Henry Hooper, grocer, was the owner in the late 1920s and early 1930s, using the building at first for stabling and then as a store and shop. The building has local architectural significance as a late nineteenth century commercial stone building relatively intact, except lacking the Shannon Avenue front.
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"Redpath's Antiques" - Physical Description 1
A coarsed ashlar hip-roofed stables, with two gables across the site at rear. These gables have a coach entry and oculus over, and two good rainwater heads. Adjacent is a remaining wall from a former neighbouring building. Inside, the roof trusses are exposed. The rear section is separated by a three quarter height masonry wall, and there is a raised section at the rear. The roof is part slate, part iron. There is a brick facade applied in the 1950s with a raked shop front under the beam of a very large span. It has a crazy paving soffit. The adjoining house, no. 325 has an intact cast-iron palisade fence of unusual pattern.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - City of Newtown Urban Conservation Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1991
Grading:
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THE HEIGHTSVictorian Heritage Register H0429
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FORMER SHEARERS ARMS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0661
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SACRED HEART CONVENT AND COLLEGEVictorian Heritage Register H0555
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