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256 High Street WINDSOR, STONNINGTON CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The shop located at 256 High Street, Windsor, is a double-storey late-Victorian building with a richly decorated Boom period facade.
How is it significant?
The shop at 256 High Street, Windsor is of local architectural significance to the City of Stonnington.
Why is it significant?
The shop is architecturally significant as a skilfully designed example of the exuberant classical idiom of the Boom period. The complexity of embellishment is rare in Prahran for a commercial building of this modest size, and stands incontrast to the generally more conservative Italianate designs in nearby Chapel Street.
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Shop - Physical Description 1
The building at 256 High Street, Windsor is a late-Victorian double-storey shop with an exuberant boom period facade. The first floor facade is constructed of face brick with a complex overlay of stuccoed classical ornament. It has a tripartite window composed like a temple front with a dentilated triangular pediment, and pilasters with Corinthian order capitals. The pilaster shafts are decorated with unusual curved incisions. At either end of the facade are broad pilasters with 'cricket bat' style rustication. The roof line is concealed by a balustraded parapet with an ached pediment bearing the numerals '886' in raised rendered lettering (presumably to show that it was built in 1886, but with the '1' missing). The skilful assemblage of facade ornament suggests the involvement of a skilled architect, as does the 1887 auction notice above, which describes the building as the work of a 'first class' architect (but does not list his name).
The first floor High Street facade and the Hornby Street sideage both appear substantially intact apart from painting over of face brickwork, some missing parapet balusters and the removal of glazing bars from one window sash. The ground floor shopfront has been replaced although the masonry plinth appears original. The building has no front verandah, but may originally have been built without such - there is no indication of a verandah on the 1896 MMBW plan above.
Shop - Local Historical Themes
7.1 'Serving Local Communities'
Shop - Shopfront
Intact elements: Partial, bluestone pillars and stallboard.
Heritage Study and Grading
Stonnington - Shops in the City of Stonnington Heritage Citations Project
Author: Bryce Raworth Pty Ltd
Year: 2011
Grading: A2Stonnington - City of Stonnington - Heritage Precincts - Intact Shop Fronts Survey 2012
Author: Context P/L
Year: 2012
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PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 1467Victorian Heritage Register H1032
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PRAHRAN TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0203
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FORMER POLICE STATION AND COURT HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0542
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