Survey Data
Reg No
12317036
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic
Original Use
House
In Use As
Shop/retail outlet
Date
1790 - 1810
Coordinates
258514, 141969
Date Recorded
18/05/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Terraced two-bay two-storey house, c.1800, on a corner site with four-bay two-storey side (south-east) elevation. Extensively renovated, c.1900, with shopfronts inserted to ground floor and openings to side (south-east) elevation remodelled. Reroofed. Now disused to first floor. Pitched (shared) roofs on an L-shaped plan (forming hip to corner) with replacement slate, clay ridge tiles, and no rainwater goods on slightly overhanging timber eaves. Painted rendered wall to front (south-west) elevation with rendered recessed panels to corner having moulded course over supporting rendered quoins to first floor, and painted roughcast wall to side (south-east) elevation. Square-headed window openings (remodelled to side (south-east) elevation, c.1900) with concrete sills, and replacement fixed-pane timber windows, c.1900, having casement sections. Pair of timber shopfronts, c.1900, to ground floor with pilasters, fixed-pane (three-light to side (south-east) elevation) timber display windows, timber panelled double doors having overlights, profiled fascias, and moulded cornices on scalloped courses. Interior with timber fittings, c.1900, forming commercial interior to ground floor. Road fronted on a corner site with concrete footpath to front.
Appraisal
An appealing composition occupying an important corner site in the centre of Thomastown, thereby making a positive contribution to the aesthetic value of the streetscape. Although extensively remodelled at the turn of the twentieth century the resultant modifications have become the distinctive characteristics enhancing the design value of the composition: the remodelled openings for example introduce an almost Modernist tone to the site. Similarly a pair of shopfronts displaying high quality craftsmanship augment the visual appeal of the site at street level while the survival of an early commercial interior is especially noteworthy: the position in close proximity to the adjacent tannery complex (12317035/KK-28-17-35) suggests the possibility that the space was redeveloped as a retail point for leather goods.