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Former P.S. Carey Motors (Scribbles Inc. Art and Craft Supplies)
105 - 105A Main Street Main Street BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE

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Scribbles Inc. Art and Craft Supplies
Scribbles Inc. Art and Craft Supplies
Scribbles Inc. Art and Craft Supplies
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Statement of Significance

A two-storey brick Edwardian building which was the first known purpose-built motor garage in country Victoria, the second in the State and the earliest in Bacchus Marsh and remained a garage from 1913 until 1980. From 1938, its first floor apartment was the childhood home of Peter Carey, the internationally renowned Booker Prize-winning novelist.

It has historical significance regionally as the pioneering building of this type and represents a rare representative embodiment of the motoring world of over eighty years ago . It is also historically significant for its association with an important and influential person, in Peter Carey.

Finally, it is architecturally significant as an example of a building type, a very early motor garage, although altered.

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    • Physical Conditions

      Former P.S. Carey Motors (Scribbles Inc. Art and Craft Supplies) - Physical Conditions

      Good. Road widening?

      Intactness

      Former P.S. Carey Motors (Scribbles Inc. Art and Craft Supplies) - Intactness

      All brickwork has been painted, Art Nouveau bas relief decoration to frieze has unfortunately been removed.

      First floor window cills have been raised, and corner window heightened. The cantilevered canopy has been removed and lightweight raked metal canopies installed. The corner shopfront has been replaced with aluminium and lowered. The Grant Street display window has been painted over. The interior is relatively intact.

      SIGNIFICANT INTACT ELEMENTS:
      FACADE.
      PARAPET DECORATION.
      WINDOWS.
      CONTEXT. 146, 148, 149.

      Physical Description 1

      Former P.S. Carey Motors (Scribbles Inc. Art and Craft Supplies) - Physical Description 1

      A two-storey Edwardian brick commercial buildings, with a parapet. It has two bays to Main Street and one bay to Grant Street with a splayed corner. There is a Voyseyesque parapet with a frieze defined by mouldings between corner piers which project above the frieze, capped by another moulding. The parapet to Main Street is rounded. Windows are in recessed panels with toothed brick cills. There are large display timber frame windows at ground level to both fronts .

      Usage/Former Usage

      Former P.S. Carey Motors (Scribbles Inc. Art and Craft Supplies) - Usage/Former Usage

      USE: Shop
      PREVIOUS USE: Motor garage and apartment.

      Historical Australian Themes

      Former P.S. Carey Motors (Scribbles Inc. Art and Craft Supplies) - Historical Australian Themes

      Townships.

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Moorabool - Bacchus Marsh Heritage Study 1995

      Author: Richard Peterson and Daniel Catrice
      Year: 1995
      Grading:

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