HOUSE & DAIRY OR SHOP (FORMER)
1 AUDLEY STREET,, COBURG VIC 3058 - Property No 26771
Moreland Railway Station
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Statement of Significance
Historically, the premises, which operated as a small dairy in the 1920s and '30s, and subsequently as a grocer, provides valuable evidence of a type of commercial enterprise which was common at that time, but which has subsequently become obsolete with refrigeration techniques and mass marketing of dairy products.
Aesthetically, the shop is a representative example of a modest inter-War shopfront displaying typical Moderne design influences (RNE Criterion E.1). It remains as a local landmark at the northern end of the Station Street axis.
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HOUSE & DAIRY OR SHOP (FORMER) - Physical Description 1
The property at 1 Audley Street, Coburg comprises a single storey, single fronted weatherboard cottage on the corner has a gabled roof clad in corrugated galvanised steel penetrated by a painted, rendered brick chimney with ornate capping. The gable ends have been replaced with steel decking and the verandah posts have been replaced c.1950s with wrought iron flat columns. The windows have been replaced with aluminium framed sliding windows. The original four paneled front door is retained.
A second gabled wing sited west of the first cottage is offset slightly, and forms an enclosed link to the two small brick buildings which were constructed to form part of the dairy or later shop (c.1926) which faces onto Station Street. These brick buildings have gabled corrugated roofs behind a parapet. The doors are variously four-panelled and glazed three-panelled and the windows are generally timber-framed double-hung sashes.
The front fence is low Interwar clinker brick construction.
Key Architectural Elements:
Collection of buildings and additions of different periods and different uses
Gabled roof form to house and parapeted roof to shop
Rendered chimneys
Conservation Guidelines:
The appearance of the house would be greatly enhanced by the removal of unsympathetic wall cladding and the reinstatement of original window form and verandah details.
The shop should remain externally presented as a shop.
Comparative Examples:
Former Abattoir, Butcher's Shop and Dwelling, 145-47 Union Street, Brunswick
Former Dairy, 136a Nicholson Street, Brunswick EastHOUSE & DAIRY OR SHOP (FORMER) - Physical Conditions
Fair
HOUSE & DAIRY OR SHOP (FORMER) - Integrity
Major Alterations
Heritage Study and Grading
Moreland - City of Moreland Heritage Review. Additional Building Citations
Author: Allen Lovell and Associates
Year: 2001
Grading: LocalMoreland - Moreland City Council: Local Heritage Places Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2004
Grading:
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FORMER MELVILLES GRAIN STOREVictorian Heritage Register H0705
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GLENCAIRNVictorian Heritage Register H0375
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THE AMERICAN COTTAGEVictorian Heritage Register H0139
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