203-205 High Street
203-205 High Street NORTHCOTE, Darebin City
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Statement of Significance
This pair is sited opposite the town hall (qv) and the complements its render decoration. The buildings association with Bastings, perhaps Northcote's most well known pioneer, and the boom period firm of Bagley Brothers also makes them of local historical importance.
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203-205 High Street - Physical Description 1
Numbers 203-5 High Street are a pair of two-storey rendered brick, each with a pedimented parapet, a pronounced bracketed and dentilated cornice, and arched windows to the first floor. Each building is bifurcated by a pilaster enriched with acanthus leaf consoles and fielded panel mounding.
Pairs of pressed cement rosettes occur above the windows which have moulded archivolts and bracketed sills. Beneath the sills is a moulded string-course. Originally there was no verandah and the proprietor's nameboard extended under this moulding. No 205 originally had its residential and shop entrances at each end of the facade, with a splayed shop window. The corner building had its residential entrance in Westboume Grove, allowing a larger shopfront. Both shop fronts have since been replaced and a cantilever verandah erected.
Heritage Study and Grading
Darebin - Darebin Heritage Review
Author: Andrew Ward
Year: 2000
Grading:
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FORMER LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR HOME FOR THE AGEDVictorian Heritage Register H1950
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TERRACE HOUSESVictorian Heritage Register H1774
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FORMER NORTHCOTE THEATREVictorian Heritage Register H2287
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