SHOP
151A LYGON STREET, BRUNSWICK EAST, MORELAND CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The shop, constructed by 1935, at 151A Lygon Street, Brunswick East is significant. This is a single-storey shop with afinely detailed stepped parapet featuring geometric patterningin clinker brick and render. It retains an original shopfront with metal-framed windows, blue tiled stallboard, and a recessed entry with tiled floor and a glazed timber door. The cantilevered verandah may be original but has been boxed in.
Non original alterations and additions are not significant.
How is it significant?
The shop at 151A Lygon Street, Brunswick East is of local architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.
Why is it significant?
It is significant as a representative example of an interwar shop, which is notable for the high degree of intactness. The parapet, withthedistinctive stepped profile and geometric patterning, which demonstrates the influence of the Jazz Moderne or Art Deco style, and retains the originalfinishesis a notable feature, and is complemented by the original shopfront. (Criteria D & E)
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SHOP - Physical Description 1
This is a single-storey shop with finely detailed stepped parapet withgeometric patterningin clinker brick and render. It retains an original shopfront with metal-framed windows, blue tiled stallboard, and a recessed entry with tiled floor and a glazed timber door. The cantilevered verandah may be original but has been boxed in. The building is highly intact with no significant visible alterations.
Heritage Study and Grading
Moreland - Moreland Heritage Gaps Study 2017
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2017
Grading: LocalMoreland - Lygon Street Heritage Study Stage 2
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2012
Grading: Not Assessed
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