Shops
463-465 High Street PRAHRAN, STONNINGTON CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The shops at 463-465 High Street, Prahran comprise a pair of late Victorian retail buildings with elaborate unpainted rendered ornament and polychrome brickwork.
How is it significant?
The shops at 463-465 High Street, Prahran are of local architectural significance.
Why is it significant?
The shops at 463-465 High Street, Prahran are architecturally significance as fine, and substantially intact, examples of late Victorian retail buildings with ornate rendered ornament and polychrome brickwork. Render and polychrome brickwork of this high quality rarely survives in its original unpainted state in this municipality.
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Shops - Physical Description 1
The shops at 463-465 High Street consist of a matching pair of late Victorian double-storey buildings with ornate polychrome brick and render facades. Each shop has a pair of round arched windows at first floor level with timber framed double-hung sash frames. The windows have cream and red brick voussoirs and rendered keystone and impost mouldings. The walls are constructed of banded red and cream brickwork with brown brick accents. Above the brick walls are rendered parapets with moulded cornices and intricate shell motifs, surmounted by triangular brick pediments and urn finials. Concealed behind the parapet, the shops have transverse gabled roofs and a red brick chimney with a rendered cornice.
The shopfront at 465 High Street retains its original recessed and splayed entry and possibly some original joinery. The shopfront at 463 High Street has been entirely modernised. The High Street facades otherwise appear intact to their nineteenth century state. The shops do not have front verandahs but early MMBW plans suggest that they originally had no such feature.
Shops - Local Historical Themes
7.1 'Serving Local Communities'
Shops - Shopfront
Intact elements:
463 High Street - Timber-framed windows (lamb's tongue moulding) and highlights, stallboard new, recessed entry with bluestone -slab floor, panelled door with highlight.
465 High Street - Timber-framed windows (lamb's tongue moulding) and highlights (covered), deep recessed entry, panelled door with highlight (margin glazing, over painted).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
Grading:
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PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 1467Victorian Heritage Register H1032
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FORMER RECHABITE HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0575
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ST MARYS CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0750
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