Ellery's Arcade on

Stirling Terrace, Toodyay Stirling Terrace is the main street of Toodyay, Western Australia, originally called New Road until 1905. Route description From the intersection of Toodyay Road and Goomalling Toodyay Road, Stirling Terrace travels north-west through the tow ...

, Western Australia comprises six shops, which were built at various times. The first three shops were constructed over the period 1882 to 1891 by Jane Donegan; one of them she ran as a boarding house named "Mount View". After Donegan's death in 1901,

Charles Ellery Charles George Ellery (6 June 1854 – 5 June 1937) was an Australian bootmaker who worked for the city of Toodyay in Western Australia. Ellery was assisted for a time by his brother James, and then his daughter Constance who continued the fa ...

purchased the shops and by 1907 had filled in the gaps with another three shops. The group at that time became known as Ellery's Buildings. The row of six shops is of rendered brick construction with an iron roof. The parapet has been divided by

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verandah canopy is supported on turned timber columns. The shops all have different style frontages. The butcher's shop has always been so, but the other shops have had a variety of businesses: saddlers, café, pharmacy, tailors, printers and grocers. The next building to the west along Stirling Terrace is Urwin's Store.

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