Citation No:
City of Port Phillip Heritage Review Identifier
Former Melbourne Savings Bank
Formerly
unknown
kS Par
1088
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S don ren Cla t Heritage Precinct Overlay HO3 Heritage Overlay(s)
Address
345-353 Clarendon St SOUTH MELBOURNE
Constructed c.1920
Category Commercial Designer George Wharton
Amendment C 52 Comment
Corner site is non contributory. Building next to corner building is contributory.
Significance (Mapped as a Contributory heritage place.) This building is of significance as being a faithful extension of what was one of the key nineteenth century buildings along Clarendon Street. While ill-balanced without the main building, it is a valuable reminder of the nineteenth century fabric and character of the street.
Primary Source Allom Lovell Sanderson Pty. Ltd., South Melb Conservation study vol. 2, 1987
Other Studies Description Original Use: Banking Premises Architect: Original Bank by George Wharton This building is a curiosity in the area, as it is the very faithfully detailed extension that was made to an 1880s bank; the earlier building having now been demolished. The original bank (the Melbourne Savings Bank), was built by the very competent designer George Wharton in 1884 (1) and has a rendered façade with banded rustication to the ground floor and a piano nobile treatment to the first floor. This extension, being only one storey high, repeated the basement treatment of the banded rustication, while its colonnaded entrance porch is a copy of the entrance on Wharton’s building.
History see Description
Thematic Context