Great Western Median PriceThe House price is 22% lower than last year.
Surrounding suburbsGreat Western Median RentThe House rent is 3% lower than last year.
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The General Store, 93-95 Main Street (Western Highway), Great Western, contributes to the significant, single storey, pitched roof central township area. This building is believed to have been constructed for a Mr. Simpson around 1914, with the post office attached. It replaced an earlier timber store dating from c.1862 that had been built for John Cornforth who, as well as being a shopkeeper, was also a local farrier.
The General Store, 93-95 Main Street (Western Highway), is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities for an early 20th century commercial building. These qualities include the rudimentary parapet capped by two courses of projecting bricks, and the brick wall construction (but possibly not the overpainting). Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, timber framed double hung windows and door frame, chamfered building corner, and the form and location of the return skillion
verandah. The General Store and site, 93-95 Main Street (Western Highway), is historically significant at a LOCAL level. The site is associated with the first land sales in Great Western, with this site having been sold to John Cornforth in 1859, who established a timber store there in c.1862. The present building has associations with a Mr. Simpson, who had this building constructed in c.1914.
The General Store and site, 93-95 Main Street (Western Highway), is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and valued by the Great Western community as an historic site. Overall, the General Store, 93-95 Main Street (Western Highway), is of LOCAL significance. | | | | 18 Aug 2018 | | Subdivision of existing lot into two. Existing Shop and dwelling wholly contained in lot 2 | | (Source: , reference no: ) |
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