Former Edwardian Butcher's Shop - Corner Seymour and Neil Streets, Ballarat
Built on the corner of Seymour and Neil Streets in the provincial city of Ballarat, this former butcher's shop would have been erected in the early 1900s.
Built of red brick, the shop still has its signs with the lettering clearly cut into stone. On the upper panes of its windows, 1930s signs painted in brilliant red and cobalt blue advertising ox beef, corned beef and choice veal are still clear, if a little faded by the passing years. It also has its original white tile panels with black tile chequered detailing around the windows and corner door. The shop still boasts a very original interior, with high ceilings of pressed tin, weatherboard walls and windows of dark blue and lime and bottle green dimpled glass.
No longer the local butchers, the shop today functions as a studio for a local artist who has embraced the shop's original function and its history by hanging her works from the original meat hooks that hang from a rail along both the Neil and Seymour Street facades.
Former Edwardian Butcher's Shop - Corner Seymour and Neil Streets, Ballarat
Built on the corner of Seymour and Neil Streets in the provincial city of Ballarat, this former butcher's shop would have been erected in the early 1900s.
Built of red brick, the shop still has its signs with the lettering clearly cut into stone. On the upper panes of its windows, 1930s signs painted in brilliant red and cobalt blue advertising ox beef, corned beef and choice veal are still clear, if a little faded by the passing years. It also has its original white tile panels with black tile chequered detailing around the windows and corner door. The shop still boasts a very original interior, with high ceilings of pressed tin, weatherboard walls and windows of dark blue and lime and bottle green dimpled glass.
No longer the local butchers, the shop today functions as a studio for a local artist who has embraced the shop's original function and its history by hanging her works from the original meat hooks that hang from a rail along both the Neil and Seymour Street facades.