Former National Mutual Insurance Co. (Duplicate)

201 Sturt Street, BALLARAT CENTRAL VIC 3350 - Property No 2030749

Lydiard Street Heritage Precinct

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Former National Mutual Insurance Co - Film 1 / Frame 32 - Ballarat Conservation Study, 1978

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  • Physical Description 1

    Former National Mutual Insurance Co. (Duplicate) - 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    The building has been altered: The original verandah with paired columns has been replaced by an unsympathetic cantilevered awning, and the shopfronts modernised.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 condition

    Intactness

    Former National Mutual Insurance Co. (Duplicate) - Intactness

    FLOORS SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Ballarat - Ballarat Heritage Precincts Study

    Author: Dr David Rowe and Wendy Jacobs
    Year: 2006
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