HOUSE AND SHOP
89-91 LUCAN STREET, BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
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Statement of Significance
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HOUSE AND SHOP - Physical Description 1
Lucan Street leads north of the Bendigo city centre and is today characterised by a mix of different eras of development. The Anne Caudle Centre, part of Bendigo Health and formerly the Bendigo Benevolent Asylum dominates the street as a key historic place. Commercial premises at 105 and 89-91 Lucan Street are reminders of the earlier commercial function of the street.
The building comprises a mid nineteenth century shop and an attached residence of a late Victorian Edwardian transition style. The house is set back from the street frontage and has a triangular parapet with urns beneath which is a projecting gable feature with barge boards and a turned finial. Panels mounded into to the cement render form additional decoration to the facade. A box bay window projects in to the front verandah which is supported on timber posts with a cast iron frieze. A modern steel picket fence has been constructed across the frontage. The style and construction of the residence indicates that it is most likely to have been built some time in the 1880s, replacing an earlier building rated from the 1860s.
The shop has zero setback from the street frontage and comprises a decorative rendered facade with central door and a pair of large tri-partite windows with decorative surround mouldings. Above a string course a garland motif is repeated across the whole frontage, sitting beneath a semi-circular parapet above the front door. The wall surface render has quoining to the corners and the side wall is of painted brick. The doorway has a label moulding and slightly recessed door. There are two rendered chimneys with string courses (one with a terracotta chimney pot). The design of the shop appears to be an earlier construction than the house, with architectural features that indicate a construction date from the mid to late 1860s.
In 2014-15 substantial redevelopment has taken place to the property with the house remaining intact but only the facade of the shop remaining following demolition of the building behind it. The street presence of the facade is still strong despite its loss of integrity.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Bendigo - White Hills & East Bendigo Heritage Study 2016
Author: Context P/L
Year: 2015
Grading: Local
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