Former Holmes & Salter Offices
56 LYDIARD STREET SOUTH, BALLARAT CENTRAL - PROPERTY NUMBER 2020993, BALLARAT CITY
Lydiard Street Heritage Precinct
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Statement of Significance
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Former Holmes & Salter Offices - Physical Description 1
This building reputedly occupies the site of the first house constructed in Ballarat. The present building displays a combination of somewhat exotic medieval detailing and an unmodelled facade surface with a ground floor in which paired arched windows are divided by a Corinthian shaft (which, in the medieval fashion, is much slimmer than the springing). The failure to match the shaft at the sides of the openings gives a rather bizarre imbalance.
The entrance door has been replaced, but is surmounted by a flat pointed arch.
In the upper floor the windows are paired, divided by a full pier, and the arched heads are loosely reflected by the rising impost moulding of a nail head pattern which carries a hint of the Florentine or Venetian arch.
Finally a Gothic arcaded corbel table of Venetian/Lombardic derivation supports a cornice, on the face of which are small lions heads. The facade is in brick, now painted, but was probably polychrome.
This corner building is of considerable architectural interest. It terminates an extremely significant streetscape sequence, and provides an important corner component. It is substantially intact and in good condition.Former Holmes & Salter Offices - Integrity
SIGNIFICANTLY INTACT
Heritage Study and Grading
Ballarat - Ballarat Conservation Study
Author: Jacobs Lewis Vines Architects
Year: 1978
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