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china was quickly fanned into flames and is believed to have destroyed all but the brick walls. A new store, or rebuilding of the earlier store, was completed shortly after. Although the detail of the building has undergone fabric manipulation and change over the 140 years it remains externally a surviving example of an early
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226 George Street was built in the mid-nineteenth century. It housed a general store run by Peter O'Hara, a prominent local businessman. It weathered the great fire that ravaged
Windsor in December 1874. The fire engulfed the building where the packing straw for O'Hara's goods of tin, earthenware and
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More recently, a new single-storey storage outbuilding was built in the rear yard and was subject to an archaeological monitoring report by
Siobhan Lavelle, c.1999-2000. The front facade was also changed from a suspended flat awning to a concave verandah with timber posts as recommended within the
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building linked to the ground floor rooms. The ground floor has a side entrance leading to the first-floor staircase and office accommodation. The resultant external character of the original sandstock brick building has been changed by it being painted entirely.
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Although the detail of the building has undergone fabric manipulation and change over the 140 years it remains externally a surviving example of an early
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markings, providing a marked change in appearance, together with two timber-framed shopfront picture windows and central doorway. The remainder of the street
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off the wall and with timber posts (probably non-load-bearing). Below this verandah the walls have been cement-rendered, with
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wall with the word "Castrol" showing through the painted layers in a curved format.
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is a heritage-listed commercial building located at 226 George Street,
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Simmons
Hardware Store; Peter O'Hara's General Store; Simmons Store
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Heritage-listed building in Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia
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Nichols, Michelle (Local Studies Librarian) (2010).
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