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505-507 Spencer Street, West Melbourne

Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-2005Jul-99

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Allom Lovell & Associates, 1981-2005

Date of work:

Jul-99

Reference number:

108864

Level of description:

Item from Collection: Heritage Collection (HC)

Type of materials:

Graphic materials

Part of:

Series: North Melbourne and West Melbourne (BIF-NORTH)

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UnrestrictedOpen access

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Refer to individual item records for Use Restrictions.Please contact City of Melbourne Libraries about obtaining permission to reproduce images.

General notes:

Grading as at 1999 : DPeriod : Mid Victorian c 1879The Sands & McDougall directories suggest that this buliding was constructed c1878. A building, which may be this shop at 507 Spencer Street, appears in the directory for 1880, then numbered 91 (later No. 505), occupied by J Weeding, a baker. The owner is recorded in the rate books as William Yule, and the building is described as a brick shop with six rooms, valued at £80.It is a double storey rendered Italianate style shop built to the property line. The first floor is intact and comprises three double hung sash windows with moulded architraves and bracketed sills. Above these, a rendered cornice extends across the parapet between console brackets. Scrolled decoration terminates the ends of the parapet, an unusual element. The ground floor shopfront has been altered.It is local is of local aesthetic and historical interest, being demonstrative of commercial development of the nineteenth century Boom period, a major phase in the history of West and North Melbourne. Except for the shopfront the building is substantially intact and contributes to the heritage character of the streetscape in this part of Spencer Street.

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City of Melbourne

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