CORNER SHOP (FORMER) & RESIDENCE
103 ALBION STREET,, BRUNSWICK VIC 3056 - Property No 14877
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The former shop and residence, constructed in 1884 for William Lunn, at 103 Albion Street, Brunswick is significant. This late Victorian former shop and residence is asymmetrical in plan and has a typical hipped iron roof and weatherboard walls. The former shop is contained within the projecting bay built to the street corner and retains the original timber framed shop window with timber stallboards and a recessed, stepped entry at one side lined with beaded horizontal timber boards (the door has been replaced). Other original details include one bi-chrome brick chimney and paired eaves brackets.The timber post verandah is not original, but is reasonably sympathetic in its form and detailing.
Other non-original alterations and additions are not significant.
How is it significant?
The former shop and residence at 103 Albion Street, Brunswick is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.
Why is it significant?
It is significant as a representative example of the local shops that were established to serve the local needs of residents in Brunswick at a time of major suburban growth in the nineteenth century. Constructed by 1884, it is one of the oldest surviving corner shops in Brunswick. (Criterion A)
It is significant as a rare example of a late Victorian timber shop and residence, which retains an original shop window. It is also significant as a distinctive early building within this area. (Criteria B, D & E)
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CORNER SHOP (FORMER) & RESIDENCE - Physical Description 1
This late Victorian former shop and residence is asymmetrical in plan and has a typical hipped iron roof and weatherboard walls. The formershop is contained within the projecting bay built to the street corner and retains the original timber framed shop window with timber stallboards and a recessed, stepped entry at one side lined with beaded horizontal timber boards (the door has been replaced). Other original details include one bi-chrome brick chimney and paired eaves brackets.
The timber post verandah is not original (MMBW plans show the building did not have a verandah in the early 1900s), but is reasonably sympathetic in its form and detailing. Other changes a new horizontal window in the west side wall,the replacement of the front windowandalterations andadditions tothe verandah of the former residence section, as well as additions and new openings on the eastside.
Heritage Study and Grading
Moreland - Moreland Heritage Gaps Study 2017
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2017
Grading: LocalMoreland - Keeping Brunswick's heritage: A Report on the Review of the Brunswick Conservation Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1990
Grading: LocalMoreland - Moreland City Council: Local Heritage Places Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2004
Grading:
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