Gawler Street Precinct
017 Adelaide Road | Auchendarroch
17 Adelaide Road, Auchendarroch The mansion that is today “Auchendarroch” started out as the Oakfield Hotel, a two-storey establishment with eight main rooms, built for proprietor Lachlan Macfarlan (1806-1892) in 1860. Macfarlan had arrived in Sydney …
05 Gawler St | Millie’s Bakery (Lobethal Bakery)
5 Gawler St, Millie’s Bakery (Lobethal Bakery) “Millie’s Bakery” was a Mount Barker institution for more than forty years, but the building was not always a bakery, and “Millie” was not a baker. The shop was built in about 1873 as a residence for the …
10 Gawler St | Harrowfield’s Cottage (Cloth and Bale)
10 Gawler St, Harrowfield’s Cottage (Cloth and Bale) For much of its long history this cottage has been used as a residence, with a succession of individuals and families either owning or leasing it. John Rundle (1791-1874) was a Cornish farmer, cattle …
12-14 Gawler St | Tinsmiths’ Workshop (Bank SA)
12-14 Gawler St Tinsmiths’ Workshop (Bank SA) Tinsmiths were amongst the first businesses to set up in Gawler Street, and this site was continuously occupied by tinsmiths for more than fifty years. In the mid-nineteenth century most of the goods that …
15 Gawler St/ 17 Walker St | Richardson’s Corner (Grounds for Coffee)
15 Gawler St/ 17 Walker St, Richardson’s Corner (Grounds for Coffee) This shop is one of the earliest in Gawler Street. The site used to be known as “Richardson’s Corner,” after the Richardson family who ran a chemist shop here for over fifty years. P …
16 Gawler St | Bank of Australasia (ANZ Bank)
16 Gawler St, Bank of Australasia (ANZ Bank) The Bank of Australasia operated from 1835 to 1951, when it merged with the Union Bank of Australia to form ANZ. Its first Adelaide branch opened in 1839, but it was not until 1881 that a branch opened in M …
23-23a Gawler St | Commercial Bank (Simply Style and Shoex)
23-23a Gawler St, Commercial Bank (Simply Style and Shoex) This site was originally occupied by cabinetmaker Simeon Moss (1821-1903), who emigrated from England in 1850 with his wife Anne (née Thompson, 1826-1886). The following year he paid £30 to acq …
30-32 Gawler St | Mount Barker Hotel
30-32 Gawler St, Mount Barker Hotel This hotel was first licensed in 1849. This makes it the oldest surviving hotel Mount Barker, and also the oldest surviving building in Gawler Street, although it has been much altered over the years. It began as a …
31 Gawler St | Daw’s Butcher Shop (Mane)
31 Gawler St, Daw’s Butcher Shop (Mane) Before a regular butcher’s premises had been established in the town, Mount Barker pioneer Duncan Macfarlane supplied mutton from his sheep run. His four-roomed stone and brick house, in the area of what is now …
34-38 Gawler St | The Institute (Town Hall)
34-38 Gawler St, 1874 The Institute (Town Hall) September 10, 1875 was a gala day for Mount Barker. The occasion was the opening of the Mount Barker Institute, which had been completed after more than twenty years of effort and aspiration. The …
35 Gawler St | Bell’s Drapery (TownMed)
35 Gawler St, Bell’s Drapery (TownMed) The first shop to operate from this site was the Mount Barker Boot and Shoe Depot, opened in 1854 by London-born William Barker (1802-1873, unrelated to William Barker who ran the drapery at 55-57 Gawler Street). …
45-47 Gawler St | Wilkinson’s Chemist (Terry White Chemmart)
45-47 Gawler St, Wilkinson’s Chemist (Terry White Chemmart) In 1877 this site was bought by James Trego Williams (1836-1903), previously manager of the National Bank at Gawler. Williams may have acquired it for a commercial office, having gone into pa …
48-50 Gawler St | National Bank of Australasia (NAB)
48-50 Gawler St, National Bank of Australasia (NAB) In the original plans for the town of Mount Barker two blocks of land in the centre of the town were set aside. One was reserved for the Post Office the Police Station, and the second was for the use …
53 Gawler St | Chapman’s
53 Gawler St, Chapman’s This building is recognisably the same structure that appears in photographs of Gawler Street from the 1860s, which makes it one of the oldest shops in Mount Barker. Over the years several different kinds of enterprises have bee …
55-57 Gawler St | Barker’s Drapery (Peter Shearer)
55-57 Gawler St, Barker’s Drapery Peter Shearer) Mount Barker Springs farmer Thomas Hamlyn (1801-1883) purchased this site for £30 in 1853, amongst other local property invesments. It was not in the family for long, because in 1854 he sold it to Thoma …
58 Gawler St /33 Hutchinson St | Post and Telegraph Office (Von Doussas)
58 Gawler St /33 Hutchinson St, Post and Telegraph Office (Von Doussas) In the original plans for the town of Mount Barker two blocks of land in the centre of the town were set aside. One was reserved for the Post Office and Police Station, and the se …
60 Gawler St | Old Police Station
60 Gawler St, Old Police Station In the original plans for the town of Mount Barker two blocks of land in the centre of the town were set aside. One was reserved for the Post Office and Police Station, and the second was for the use of the Church. Thi …
63 Gawler St | Gray’s Inn
63 Gawler St, Gray’s Inn Gray’s Inn was constructed in 1855 by Benjamin Gray (1809-1879), brewer, builder and surveyor of Blakiston. There were more than a dozen pubs, large and small, in the Mount Barker and Littlehampton district in the nineteenth c …
66-68 Gawler St | Mrs Starling’s Shop
66-68 Gawler St, Mrs Starling’s Shop A story that is often repeated about this place is that a staircase to the second floor was omitted by mistake by the builder in 1865, and this necessitated the addition of an external staircase until one could be a …
71 Gawler St | Courier Office (Foundation 1 Op Shop)
71 Gawler St, Courier Office (Foundation 1 Op Shop) If you take a step back from the façade of this building and look up, you will see the Courier name across the parapet. The building was erected as an office and printery in 1884 by Charles Morris Ru …