Shops

Author

Shire of York

Place Number

02837

Location

108-112 Avon Tce York

Location Details

Part of York Town Centre Precinct

Local Government

York

Region

Avon Arc

Construction Date

Constructed from 1950, Constructed from 1907

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type Status Date Documents
(no listings)

Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

Type Status Date Documents
RHP - To be assessed Current 31 Oct 2003

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type Status Date Grading/Management
Category
Local Heritage Survey Adopted 25 Nov 2019 Considerable Significance
Register of the National Estate Registered 21 Mar 1978
Classified by the National Trust Classified 05 Mar 1985

Parent Place or Precinct

02862 York Town Centre Precinct

Statement of Significance

Some Contribution: Collins shops (1 Storey) (fmr) is modest in the streetscape, serving to highlight the more significant heritage buildings of W & H Collins on each side of it, and in the town centre context. It also evidences an original shopfront. Considerable Contribution: Collins Shop (2 Storey) makes a significant contribution to the Avon Terrace town centre with its authentic face brick frontage and original shop front at ground floor level. Together with Collins Building it bookends the single storey Collins Shops on the south side. It represents associations with W & H Collins and various uses and interactions with generations of the York community.

Physical Description

The single storey building evidences an original shopfront and a smaller altered shopfront. The original has a central double recessed truncated opening flanked by shopfront windows above a low dado (as for adjoining Collins Building shop fronts). The smaller shop front has no recess, and an entry on the south side of the front. It was likely altered at the same time that the parapet was altered to the simple rectangle, and the suspended boxed canopy replaced a veranda. The two-storey face brick building has a broad render and horizontally moulded rectangular parapet. The shop front has a central double truncated recessed entry flanked by shopfront windows above a low dado. There is a single access to the first floor, on the south side of the shopfront. The equally spaced pairs of French doors and a small balcony, at first floor level evidence that there was originally a veranda across the front of this building. A boxed canopy is suspended across the front of the shop.

History

W & H Collins had the shops constructed in 1907, at the same time as Collins Buildings next door, after he had built a row of 5 shops in front of Settler’s House at 125-135 Avon Terrace in 1906. This building was initially occupied by William Hardwick, Saddler, and J Farrell, Tobacconist in 1908. Likely that the building was modified in the 1950s, and the smaller shopfront altered in the 1970s. More recently they have been commercial services offices. In 1907 W & H Collins built the shop and upstairs dwelling at the same time as Collins Buildings, Collins Shop (1 storey), and after he had built a row of 5 shops in front of Settler’s House at 125-135 Avon Terrace in 1906. William Otto Jager, butcher, and Herbert Harold Mazzuchelli, tobaccoanist, occupied the building. In 1908, Alfred Gotthard Mattiske, Draper took over from Mazzuchelli, and in 1909, John Martin, Bootmaker, replaced Mattiske. Garner & Stevens occupied the shop at some time (previously written at top of building) In the mid-1970s it was the Bright Spot café, and currently has a similar function.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: Fair Authenticity: Fair

Condition

Good

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch General Specific
Present Use COMMERCIAL Shopping Complex
Original Use COMMERCIAL Shopping Complex

Architectural Styles

Style
Victorian Free Classical

Construction Materials

Type General Specific
Wall BRICK Common Brick

Creation Date

30 May 1989

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

23 Jun 2021

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