DESPITE the views of some that Australian pharmacy is a protected industry, few will have legislation ensuring their preservation.
However, British Heritage Minister, Helen Whately, has issued a decree guaranteeing the protection of a former pharmacy in Lowestoft, Suffolk, adding it to the National Heritage List for England.
The store was build for pharmacist, Robert Morris, in 1851 and has retained its Italianate shop front with arched windows and decorative mouldings, which the BBC noted was "very fashionable at the time, yet few survive today".
The store operated as a pharmacy up until 2012, and included mirror backed shelving and cupboards held good under gilt labels for "poisons" and "surgical appliances", and wooden drawers for the storage of dried and powdered chemicals.
The pharmacies listing comes alongside 552 other structures across England, including a World War Two observation post, Liverpool's Piazza Fountain and Sandford Parks Lido in Cheltenham.
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