Shop

Parent Place or Precinct

25581 Claremont Crescent Commercial Heritage Precinct

Statement of Significance

Considerable Contribution: fine example of a double storey commercial shop of the ‘Post-war’ period.

Physical Description

Double storey painted and rendered masonry on the street frontage with a simple low profile stepped front wall parapet. The upstairs wall has two sets of three casement windows equally located about the centre above the flat boxed suspended canopy over the ground floor that has a recessed rectangular entry to the aluminium and glass shopfront.

History

In 1905, No.125 had a weatherboard house on the site valued at £180 and occupied by boilermaker R. D. Munro. The existing two-storey brick premise, with a shop on the ground floor and a residence above, was built in 1954. The place has been a hardware store for many years. In 1960, it was run by Mr Archibald. In the early 1980s, the hardware store was acquired by former accountant Peter Wilson, who lived in the residence above the shop with his wife and two young daughters. They were still there in 2002, trading as Swanbourne Hardware, a member of the Makit chain.

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