Barber Shop
149 HIGH STREET, KANGAROO FLAT - PROPERTY NUMBER 197462, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
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Statement of Significance
The barber's shop is additionally representative (Criterion D) of many small, single-storey, single-fronted, simply detailed and parapeted shops built around Victoria from the nineteenth century through to the early years of the twentieth century. In rural areas they are often free standing buildings on main street frontages, where they served either as small shops or in some cases (as here for a time) as bank branches. The comparative external intactness of this building, notwithstanding the later barber shop sign and neo-Federation style verandah, still enables it to be read as an historic shop premises; this enhances this aspect of significance.
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Barber Shop - Physical Description 1
No. 149 High Street is a small detached single-storey, single-fronted brick shop on a sandstone base with a single doorway and window to the High Street facade. It has a plain parapet with brick courses, including a double projecting frieze course. The double-hung sash window appears to be original or early, while the door and its fanlight appear to be later but have not been dated. A tiled dado, now overpainted, has been installed to the same height as that on the neighbouring Victoria Store (presumed to date to the interwar period); as noted at the 'History,' the barber shop was built as part of the Victoria Store complex. The exposed brick of the front wall has also been overpainted. The north side wall is in unpainted, exposed red face brick; the south side wall has been overpainted with contemporary advertisements and other paint schemes. The rear wall is cement rendered brick with parapet detailing similar to that on the High Street frontage. The roof is of monopitch form, sloping slightly northward, and clad in corrugated galvanised steel. The present barber shop sign is a comparatively recent addition, of lightweight sheet set on a simple rectangular frame. Other modifications and additions to the property include the neo-Federation style verandah, added in the 1990s, with red and white-painted posts; a garage, opening north, behind the building; and a weatherboard lean-to added to the rendered rear wall.
The property appears to be in generally sound condition.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Bendigo - Heritage Policy Citations Review
Author: Lovell Chen P/L
Year: 2011
Grading: Local
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