41-49 Errol Street, North Melbourne
Butler, Graeme15/01/1985
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41-49 Errol Street, North Melbourne
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15/01/1985
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BIF-NORTH 103405, 103406, 103407, 103408
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Grading as at 1985 : CPeriod : Early Victorian (1870)Grantee : S Craig 1852William J. Cross and Co. had operated their hay and corn business off Errol Street, in Cross Place (now 51-53 Errol Street) since the 1860s. First building small wooden shops next to his corn store in Cross Place, Cross commenced this shop row in 1870: his first tenant being James Watt (later Watt Brothers) grocer (47-9), Cross temporarily occupying 43-5 as his store, and 41 in the custody of butcher, Thomas Chapman. Of later lessees, Richard Catt (qv), the furniture dealer (43-5) and Elizabeth and Richard Vine (confectioners) at 47-9, were all of long tenure.Seven shops and residences of two-storeys, stuccoed brick and possessing iron Corporation pattern street verandahs. They are parapetted, possessing typically severe gabled entablatures, with minute scrolls, above the cornice mould: equally small acroteria top each gable. Tripartite window grouping precurses the commercial style so dominant in Victoria Street, West Melbourne and the quoining subtly divides the tenancies. Only 41, 55-7 have what might have been original ingo-shop fronts. Between 41-9 (5) and 55-7 (2), is the c1920 (51-3) stepped parapet, stuccoed brick substitution for Cross Place: the shop fronts of this are c1935-40. Notable features include intact shopfront, post supported shop verandah.Architecturally, they are early commercial shop designs equipped with the later commercial verandah and therefore near original examples of the type, with subtle detailing and a major contributor to this early commercial streetscape: of regional importance. Historically, deriving from the early off street, typically farm product type industries of early North Melbourne, this site provides a long continuity of ownership and development (c1860 onwards), marking the overall development of the centre, by replacement of timber with stuccoed brick: of high local importance and regional interest.
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