Corner Shop

Statement of Significance

This site has now been demolished. The record is maintained for historical information purposes.

Physical Description

Small brick building with gable roof on corrugated metal with a single low pitch roofed extension to the rear. A separate low pitch roof covers the deep canopy over the pavement on both street fronts supported on full height timber posts, and with a timber framed hoarding running across the top of the posts. The corner entrance is flanked by large fixed windows on each side.

History

This shop was built to serve the homes in the Surbiton Estate being built around May, Lawrence and Arundel Streets and The Strand from 1911. The owner, Frederick Silverwood, is listed in the Post Office Directory at a store in Arundel Street in 1915 and it was taken over by Levi Wardley in the early 1920s. He lived in the house on the corner opposite the store.

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