Byrne's shops and residences, 492-496 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
Butler, Graeme18/1/1985
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Byrne's shops and residences, 492-496 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne
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18/1/1985
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BIF-NORTH 108003 108004 108005
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GRAEME BUTLER 1983, CONSERVATION STUDY FOR THE CITY OF MELBOURNE OF NORTH AND WEST MELBOURNEGrading as at 1985: BPeriod: Mid Victorian (1885)Grantee: J Slattery 1852History- Although brothers, John, Patrick and Matthew Byrne had these shops and residences built in 1885 as a joint venture, by 1890 Patrick was the only brother still owning one of the buildings (494). The others had been sold to John Ryan and leased before 1895, to such tradesmen as John Miller, a butcher and William Lane, a draper.Description- Three, two-storey stuccoed brick shops and residences with residences with parapets and timber shop fronts: the corner shop, 492, is the largest and has a splayed corner. Arched entablatures with acroteria which are central to each parapet are placed above the deep cornice, the paired arched windows and their flat, bracketed pediments and sills, and the string-mould at the storey line. Vermiculated panels are applied Gibbs fashion to the pilasters, which divide the shops and in the spandrels of the window pairs. A splayed corner, street verandah once extended along the Queensberry Street and half the Leveson Street facades.Integrity - The street verandah has gone; parapet acroteria and urns are gone from 492-4; the shop fronts have been replaced on 494-6 and altered on 492, facing Queensberry Street.Streetscape - A prominent contributing corner element to the Queensberry Street commercial precinct, matching directly 502-6 and in general character 514-20 and 498.Architecturally, a near to original corner shop row, presumably architecturally designed and possessing well disposed detailing and form also a major part of an important streetscape. Historically, possessing no long-lived tenancies, the row housed a number of businesses mainly of a banker-butcher composition, but 492 in particular, must have been one of the more prominent commercial premises in the area : of local importance.Recommendations - Consider replacing shop fronts with ingoes[1] using 492 (Leveson Street) as a model; investigate replacing verandah; replace acroteria and urns; repaint in typical or original colours; consider zoninq provisions to preserve original use and form.References:(RB= Rate book; D= Melbourne or Victoria Directory)RB 1885-86, 1344-6; RB 1890-91, 1346-48; RB 1895-96, 1341
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