Shops and Residences

Statement of Significance

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Description

Assessed significance: State

Item type: Built

Current use: Restaurant (part of ANA Hotel)

Former use: Housing

Group: Residential buildings (private)

Category: Terrace

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Construction Years: 1890 - 1899

Physical Description: This property comprises two, two storey, Victorian stuccoed brick terraced houses erected in the late 1880s. They are located in Cumberland Street between Essex Street and Cahill Expressway, with an extended side elevation to Essex Street. Each house has a basement area to take up the sloping nature of the site. No. 180 contained a ground floor corner shop. The two buildings are located hard against the Cumberland Street and Essex Street frontages resulting in relatively plain facades. They are designed in a restrained late Victorian style with rendered string course and cornice detailing. No. 178 has a triple rounded headed window to light the principal ground floor front room while the shop has a large display window facing Cumberland Street. The ground floor shop front appears to be in original form. No. 180 makes an interesting use of the side exposure to Essex Street by adding an additional setback, giving a small rear balcony to the upper front room. This is reflected below with a private entry to a cross stair giving access to the residence over which is quite separate from the shop. (Schwager Brooks 1989: 12-13)Internal Walls: Timber framed, finished with lath and plaster; Roof Cladding: Corrugated iron; Floor Frame: Timber; Roof Frame: TimberThey are among the later buildings of the group known as 158-180 Cumberland Street, which preserved almost intact a traditional 20th century Rocks streetscape.

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Historic Notes and Themes

Historical notes: Evidence appears on the facades, and in early photographs of a post supported awning over the Cumberland Street shop front and two upper level verandahs on the Essex Street frontage. All these have since been removed. There is evidence on the eastern or end wall of these buildings of the terraced house(s) which were originally built to the Essex Street frontage but were demolished when Gloucester Lane was created before the First World War. The image of these demolished buildings is equally visible on the western wall of 10-14 Essex Street.Archaeology notes: Granted to James Thompson and Robert Fopp (See also: AR104) as Lot 13, Section 70 on 14 May 1836.

Historical significance: This shop and residence and site are of State heritage significance for their historical and scientific cultural values. The site and building are also of State heritage significance for their contribution to The Rocks area which is of State Heritage significance in its own right (see item no. 4500458).

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Aesthetic significance: The Buildings (Lilyvale, The Butchery Building (178-180 Cumberland St) & Hart's Building (10-14 Essex St) as a group: The surviving buildings occupying the block bounded by Cumberland, Essex and Gloucester Streets, south of the Cahill expressway, collectively illustrate the range and diversity of small scale development in this area of the Rocks between 1840 and the First World War. They combine with nearby precincts to the south of Essex Street to extend that diversity into the early decades of the 20th century. The buildings on the site combine to form an interesting group, reminiscent of the lively and diverse early streetscapes and urban scale of the Rocks.(Schwager Brooks 1989: 71)

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Intact assessment: Archaeology partly disturbed.

Physical condition: Each of the buildings is in derelict but structurally sound condition, although there is evidence of termite attack in timber floors and the beam carrying the facade over the shop front.Archaeology Assessment Condition: Partly disturbed. Investigation: Watching brief

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References

Type	Author	Year	Title
Written	Schwager Brooks & Partners	1989	Historic Buildings ('Lilyvale Cottage', 'The Butchery Buildings', & 'Hart's Buildings') Conservation Plan
Written	Higginbotham, Kass & Walker	1991	The Rocks and Millers Point Archaeological Management Plan
Management Plan		2008	CMP
Management Plan			Grants index.
Management Plan	Perumal Murphy Alessi, Heritage Consultants	2015	Conservation Management Plan - The Butchery Building - 178-180 Cumberland Street

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