Heffernan's shop & residence, later Colonial wine hall, undertakers, 201 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Graeme Butler and Associates01/07/1989
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Heffernan's shop & residence, later Colonial wine hall, undertakers, 201 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
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01/07/1989
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BIF-CITY 105689
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2022:__________________________________________________Period: 1850-1875DATE: 1860-;ASSOCIATIONS: Heffernan, Rody;DESIGNER: Heffernan, Rody?;BUILDER: Heffernan, Rody.GRAEME BUTLER 1989, LITTLE BOURKE STREET PRECINCT CONSERVATION STUDYStatement of SignificanceShop and Residence201 Lonsdale StreetHistoryBuilt: 1860This allotment commenced as a lease in 1841 and a title in 1851, when John Riddell paid Charlotte Hill a gold-inflated £750 for it. Riddell sold to John Saunders in 1853 for £1000, who resold it to Rody Heffernan (Heffernan's Lane) for £1300. Heffernan mortgaged the property in 1861 as assumed finance to build this as one of two houses. 1 Heffernan, care of the Melbourne Tavern in Lonsdale Street, applied to build the houses in 1860.2After Rody's death, Ellen Heffeman became the owner, mortgaging it in 1870 to William Flanagan and William Lynch for £220. Ellen remarried by 1915 (James Lindsay) and Roger Heffernan had converted the title to Torrens by 1918.3 Roger remained the owner until Nellie and Lucy Doone replaced him prior to 1935.4Rate descriptions have a brick shop and three rooms here in 1865, increasing to five rooms by1870 and six by c1875, where it remained until the 1950s. 5 Jones & Co. (Frank Illingworth), surgical instrument, truss and bandage makers, were the long-term early tenants, with C.A. Wilhelm introducing a change of pace with his Colonial wine hall. Frederick Ehricht (1900), Florence Bregazzi (19105), and Theo RaftopuJos (19205) carried on a similar trade until a return to sobriety with Charles Frilay, undertaker. 6 Michael MuIgreen & Sons and Armstrong & Whittle continued the mortuary trade into the late 1930s. The Shang Hai and later, the Kong Nam, Cafes introduced a Chinese presence in the 1940s-1950s, run successfully by Py Koon and Lily Chun. 7 This was during the Doone ownership.8 .DescriptionTwo-storey, and once one of a pair, it is built of face-brick (painted), using an English bond, and shows no obvious signs of staged construction when viewed from the rear. The slim chimney cornice evokes the 18705 and the sidewall shutters are valuable elements. Its obvious presence on a lane, which was probably named after its first owner, is also of note. The steeply hipped roofline is still visible indicating that a fascia gutter once existed on the Lonsdale Street elevation.External IntegrityThe upper stucco facade is a reconstruction such that it now overlaps the later 203-207 Lonsdale Street, bricks have been painted, signs added, shopfront replaced, and an intrusive opening made facing the lane.StreetscapePart of a mixed Edwardian and Victorian era commercial streetscape with major intrusions (209-223).SignificanceArchitecturally, defaced on the Lonsdale Street side and near intact on the Heffernan Lane, it is of historical interest as built for the lane's namesake and later occupied by most of the precinct's ethnic mainstream (Greeks, Chinese, German and Italian) as well as functioning as a wine hall and undertaker's premises, a tribute to nearby Melbourne Hospital.Contributes to precinct.GRAEME BUTLER 1985 MELBOURNE CENTRAL ACTIVITIES DISTRICT CONSERVATION STUDYBUILDING IDENTIFICATION FORM See Graeme Butler Picture- 1989.LEWIS, M- AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE INDEX:Record 75627 Heffernan, Rody - Melbourne Tavern, Lonsdale St Melbourne VIC Houses Heffernan, Rody 1860 07 10 391, MCC registration no 391 [Burchett Index]. Fee 3.0.0, two houses, Lonsdale - opp. Hospital.GRAEME BUTLER 1989, LITTLE BOURKE STREET PRECINCT CONSERVATION STUDYcites:1 SN42341 (RGO)2 BA 391 (CITY OF MELBOURNE BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATIONS )3 ibid4 RB1930,482; RB1945, 469 (Municipal rate books)5 RB1865, 717; RB1870, 729; RB1875, 743;RB1895,6816 D1891-1930 (DIRECTORIES OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE-SANDS AND KENNY, SANDS & MCDOUGALL )7 D1939-D1961f.8 RB1940, 375;RB1945, 384; RB1950, 375.VICTORIAN HERITAGE INVENTORYAllotment commenced as a lease in 1841 & a title in 1851, purchased by John Riddell from Charlotte Hill. Sold to John Saunders 1853, who resold to Roddy Heffernan (Heffernan's Lane). Apparently constructed 1860 as one of a 2 storey pair. Long term tenant Jones & Co., surgical instrument makers, thence Colonial Wine Hall c.1890-1920s. Undertakers premises into late 1930s. Chinese cafes from the 1940s..NEWSPAPERS (TROVE)1860https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/112914223KELLY v. HEFFERNAN AND OTHERS.This was an action for an assault brought by the plaintiff against: the defendants for an alleged assault committed by them upon him in St. Patrick's Hall, on the 3rd of January...at the meeting when the question of a portrait of Mr Duffy for the walls of St. Patrick's Hall was under discussion.….Mr Gason moved a resolution for a portrait of Mr Duffy; how Mr Kelly seconded- it ; how some of his audience could not to erate his oratory in support of the motion, and ultimately put a stop to it by a general onslaught upon him, in the coarse of which he received a blow on the head from a stick, which brought him down on his knees; then 20 more blows, and finally a smashed blow on the mouth from Rody Heffernan, which cut open his lip so that it required to be stitched up by a surgeon before it had a chance of being healed. In short the plaintiff described himself as being attacked without provocation, and beaten so that he was black and blue on the.body…
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