Local Government
Denmark
Region
Great Southern
10 Hollings Rd Denmark
Lot 204
Bayley Butcher Shop
Denmark
Great Southern
Constructed from 1920
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| Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 28 Jun 2011 | Considerable Significance | |
The Reeves and Co Butcher Shop has aesthetic, historic and social cultural heritage significance. It has streetscape value and its small and simple design is valued by the community. The shop has been used continuously for one purpose since its establishment, which is quite a rare occurrence in Denmark where buildings have often been recycled for use. The Reeves and Co shop also represents a class of buildings constructed in the 1920s in Denmark reflecting the historical expansion of the town in that period.
The Reeves and Co butcher shop is located on a block next to the town’s War Memorial in Hollings Road. The single storey brick shop has a stepped parapet above the bull-nosed verandah which hides the roof. The shop facade has many simple characteristics of the 1920s period that give it streetscape value.
Reeves and Co was originally built by the Bayley Brothers in the late 1910s /early 1920s as a butcher’s shop. The building stands on its original site – with extensive alterations externally and internally made in the mid 1920s. The three Bayley Brothers came to Australia in 1911 (and to Denmark in 1912) and Norm and Ernie ran the butcher’s side of the business. The third brother, Frank, farmed at the top of Horsley Road where the Bayley property stands on Bayley’s Hill. A fourth brother Fred joined them after WWI running the dairy side of the business. The business was sold to the Thompson (Max) family in 1951 and they developed an abattoir west of town (since demolished). The Thompsons ran it for some years before selling it to the Reeves Bros who also operate in Albany. In 1994, the shop was taken over by Mike and Rosie Silver and Shane Russell.
Integrity: Little
Good
Individual Building or Group
| Epoch | General | Specific |
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| Present Use | COMMERCIAL | Shop\Retail Store {single} |
| Original Use | COMMERCIAL | Shop\Retail Store {single} |
| Type | General | Specific |
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| Roof | METAL | Corrugated Iron |
| Wall | BRICK | Common Brick |
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