Floor Tiling Detail of the Vestibule Entrance to the Alexandra Tea Rooms – Lydiard Street, Ballarat
The Alexandria Tea Rooms at 26 to 34 Lydiard Street in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat, was apparently constructed for the Commercial Club in 1872.
The building is designed in the conservative Classical Revival style. The iron verandah is distinctive in design and the balustrade panel motif is most unusual and may be of local origin. The use of the triple window motif for the windows at first floor level is unusual. A double storey cast iron verandah faces the building, with paired columns at each end and supporting the central gabled section, a motif repeated in the balustraded parapet. The iron verandah balustrade is distinctive. Roman Doric pilasters and columns face the ground floor and a triple window motif is repeated above.
The Alexandria Tea Rooms forms part of an important streetscape of Lydiard Street in the centre of Ballarat's business district and is part of the townscape of historic Ballarat. It is historically important and is of architectural consequence for its detailing and verandah.
Floor Tiling Detail of the Vestibule Entrance to the Alexandra Tea Rooms – Lydiard Street, Ballarat
The Alexandria Tea Rooms at 26 to 34 Lydiard Street in the provincial Victorian city of Ballarat, was apparently constructed for the Commercial Club in 1872.
The building is designed in the conservative Classical Revival style. The iron verandah is distinctive in design and the balustrade panel motif is most unusual and may be of local origin. The use of the triple window motif for the windows at first floor level is unusual. A double storey cast iron verandah faces the building, with paired columns at each end and supporting the central gabled section, a motif repeated in the balustraded parapet. The iron verandah balustrade is distinctive. Roman Doric pilasters and columns face the ground floor and a triple window motif is repeated above.
The Alexandria Tea Rooms forms part of an important streetscape of Lydiard Street in the centre of Ballarat's business district and is part of the townscape of historic Ballarat. It is historically important and is of architectural consequence for its detailing and verandah.