SHOP (FORMER) & RESIDENCE
105 MUNRO STREET,, COBURG VIC 3058 - Property No 88178
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The former shop and house, constructed in 1912, at 105 Munro Street, Coburg is significant. Situated on a corner site, the house is a large double fronted weatherboard Edwardian villa with a deep corrugated iron half-gabled roof and an incorporated verandah. It has two red brick chimneys. The front door has side and highlights with a large window to the left of the front facade. To the right is the shop, which projects from the house to the properties boundary. Side windows are double hung sashes with corrugated iron roofed awnings with decorative carved timber brackets.The shop is a small weatherboard building with a gabled corrugated iron roof. The gable line has simple carved bargeboards. The shop front has a corrugated iron roofed verandah supported by square section timber posts which project into the sidewalk. The shop windows are original with vertical weatherboard cladding underneath. The front door is a four panel timber door.
Non original alterations and additions including the verandah to the house are not significant.
How is it significant?
The former shop and house at 105 Munro Street, Coburg is of localhistoric significance to the City of Moreland.
Why is it significant?
It is significant as a good and reasonably intact example of a combined corner shop and residence which were once common in Coburg and surrounds. It demonstrates the retail facilities built in response to the suburban development of Coburg in the early twentieth century.(Criteria A, B & D)
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SHOP (FORMER) & RESIDENCE - Physical Description 1
This is a former shop and residence on a corner site.
The house is a large double fronted weatherboard Edwradian villa with a deep corrugated iron half-gabled roof and an incorporated verandah. It has two red brick chimneys. The front verandah has been altered in the 1950s and the original verandah posts have been replaced with wrought iron columns. The front door has side and highlights with a large window to the left of the front facade. To the right is the shop, which projects from the house to the properties boundary. Side windows are double hung sashes with corrugated iron roofed awnings with decorative carved timber brackets.
The shop is a small weathboard building with a gabled corrugated iron roof. The gable line has simple carved bargeboards. The shop front has a corrugated iron roofed verandah supported by square section timber posts which project into the sidewalk. The shop windows are original with vertical weatherboard cladding underneath. The front door is a four panel timber door.Heritage Study and Grading
Moreland - Moreland Heritage Gaps Study 2017
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2017
Grading: LocalMoreland - City of Coburg Heritage Conservation & Streetscape Study
Author: Timothy Hubbard Pty Ltd
Year: 1991
Grading: LocalMoreland - Moreland City Council: Local Heritage Places Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2004
Grading:
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