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Local Folk Cafe, 43-45 Epsom Road, Kensington

Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-20051999

Record details

Title:

Creator:

Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-2005

Date of work:

1999

Reference number:

BIF-FLKE 103380

Level of description:

Item from Collection: Heritage Collection (HC)

Type of materials:

Graphic materialsTextual material

Part of:

Series: Flemington and Kensington (BIF-FLKE)

Access restrictions:

UnrestrictedOpen access.

Use restrictions:

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General notes:

Period: EdwardianConstruction date: c1879History:The shop at 43 Epsom Road, on the corner of Westbourne Road, was built c.1879. The rate books for 1881-82 show Thomas L Robb as the occupier of a four-room wooden building on the site with a Nett Annual Value of #24. The owner was Agnes Robb, presumably Thomas' wife. The following year's rate books describe the structure as a four-room wooden house and shop. By 1886-87 Robb, previously described as a storekeeper, is listed as a grocer. Robb, a local property investor who owned a number of cottages in the surrounding streets on the early twentieth century, continued to own the shop until at least 1890. In 1900, the owner is listed in the rate books as Annie Robb, and Benjamin Porter, a greengrocer, was occupying the shop. The Sands & McDougall directories list Porter as the occupant of the shop until at least 1930..Description:The shop at 43 Epsom Road is a single-storey weatherboard building with an unusual double-gabled roof form clad in corrugated galvanised steel. The shop retains its original shopfront and skillion-roofed verandah supported on chamfered timber posts. The window to the side has a steel roller installed over it. The chimney is of red brick with a corbelled capping..Significance:The shop at 43 Epsom Road, Kensington, is of local historical importance and aesthetic interest. Historically, the building is an important remnant of the earliest phase of development of this part of Kensington, and as such is a relatively rare Victorian building in the part of Kensington west of Epsom Road. Aesthetically, the building is typical of a modest late nineteenth century shop, and remains relatively intact.

Names:

City of Melbourne

Topics:

Conservation studiesCity of Melbourne Heritage Review 1999Mid-late Victorian period (1875-1900)Weatherboard buildingsGablesShops1870-1879

Places:

Kensington (Vic.)

Form/Genre:

Building Identification Forms (BIFs)

Record types:

Research and reports

Record number:

1275912