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National Mutual Insurance Co. (Former)
2 & 2B LYDIARD STREET SOUTH, AND 201-203 & 205 STURT STREET, BALLARAT CENTRAL - PROPERTY NUMBERS 2021013, 2038689, 2021012, BALLARAT CITY
Lydiard Street Heritage Precinct
National Mutual Insurance Co. (Former)
2 & 2B LYDIARD STREET SOUTH, AND 201-203 & 205 STURT STREET, BALLARAT CENTRAL - PROPERTY NUMBERS 2021013, 2038689, 2021012, BALLARAT CITY
Lydiard Street Heritage Precinct
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Part of Recommended Area A1.1.
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National Mutual Insurance Co. (Former) - Physical Description 1
This imposing corner building was built in 1905 to the design of Architects J.J. & E.J. Clarke, and constructed in face stonework by Contractor P.Rogers. It is one of the most substantial commercial buildings constructed in Ballarat at this time, and represents the beginning of the early 20th Century eclecticism common 'in commercial buildings in Melbourne of this date.
The building is a sizeable composition with mixed Renaissance and Venetian Gothic characteristics, including recessed logias on the three upper levels, with trefoil Gothic arches to two levels and very unusual cusped stilted segmental arches on the top storey. From the roof projects an openwork octagonal structure, formerly domed with pinnacles at the corners.
Internally there is little of note, apart from a range of pressed metal ceilings of varying patterns on the first and second floors.
The building has been altered: The original verandah with paired columns has been replaced by an unsympathetic cantilevered awning, and the shopfronts modernised. There were originally three corner mansarded turrets capped by finials. The building however still provides a unique streetscape element; there appears to be no building of similar design, throughout the State of Victoria. It is substantially intact above ground floor level, and in good conditionHeritage Study and Grading
Ballarat - Ballarat Conservation Study
Author: Jacobs Lewis Vines Architects
Year: 1978
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