Shop Row is a heritage-listed commercial building at 609 & 613 Stanley Street,

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, Australia. It was built . It was added to the

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on 21 October 1992.

History

This two-storeyed brick shop row was built , probably for John Brett and Winifred Mary Charlton, owners of the adjoining

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. Although the site on which the shop row is situated housed a number of small businesses from the 1870s onwards, the land subdivision which permitted construction of the brick shop row did not take place until 1903, following purchase of the Clarence Hotel and the adjoining Stanley Street property by the Charltons in 1902–03. Its occupants have included fruiterers, hairdressers, tobacconists, drapers, and the

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Description

This two-storeyed brick row comprises five shops, with a single skillion roof of corrugated iron sloping down from the front to the back. A parapet of exposed face brickwork with applied decoration in cement render dominates the Stanley Street facade. The central design element on this parapet is a

pediment Pediments are a form of gable in classical architecture, usually of a triangular shape. Pediments are placed above the horizontal structure of the cornice (an elaborated lintel), or entablature if supported by columns.Summerson, 130 In an ...

scroll with plant motifs; in the bays on either side of the scroll, arch forms in cement render are set in relief. A first floor cantilevered verandah across the front elevation is ornamented with double timber posts,

bracket A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their n ...

sweeps to three sides of each post, and batten balustrade and

frieze In classical architecture, the frieze is the wide central section of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic order, Ionic or Corinthian order, Corinthian orders, or decorated with bas-reliefs. Patera (architecture), Paterae are also ...

. A set of French doors with fanlight opens centrally from each shop onto the verandah. At the lower level a corrugated iron street

awning An awning or overhang is a secondary covering attached to the exterior wall of a building. It is typically composed of canvas woven of Acrylic fiber, acrylic, cotton or polyester yarn, or vinyl laminated to polyester fabric that is stretched tight ...

is supported by double timber posts.

Heritage listing

Shop Row was listed on the

on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria. The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland's history. Shop Row at Woolloongabba, erected , is important typologically as surviving evidence of Federation-era shop row type in Brisbane, and historically as one of the few surviving commercial buildings of Woolloongabba's early 20th century post-depression recovery. The place is important for its streetscape contribution, and as an integral part of the Clarence Corner precinct, which encapsulates the principal phases of commercial development in Woolloongabba from the 1860s to the 1930s. The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places. Shop Row at Woolloongabba, erected , is important typologically as surviving evidence of Federation-era shop row type in Brisbane, and historically as one of the few surviving commercial buildings of Woolloongabba's early 20th century post-depression recovery. The place is important because of its aesthetic significance. The place is important for its streetscape contribution, and as an integral part of the Clarence Corner precinct, which encapsulates the principal phases of commercial development in Woolloongabba from the 1860s to the 1930s.

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