RICHMOND TERMINAL STATION
347 MARY STREET,, RICHMOND VIC 3121 - Property No 159085
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Statement of Significance
The following wording is from the Allom and Lovell Building Citation, 1998 for the property. Please note that this is a "Building Citation", not a "Statement of Significance". For further information refer to the Building Citation held by the City of Yarra.
History:
The former Richmond Terminal Station was established in 1928, the third such terminal station in Victoria, after Yarraville (1926) and Thomastown. The Richmond Terminal Station was the destination of electric power generated in the Latrobe Valley. The main building was built by 1930.
Two synchronous condensers, large rotating machines used to regulate (usually raise) the 132 kV voltage power from the Latrobe Valley, were housed on the ground floor. The first floor was used as the control room, whilst the chief electrical engineer occupied a flat on the top floor.
Since the late 1970s, the building has been used as a cable storage area; the control room and all offices are now housed in other buildings built on the site in the 1960s and 1970s.
Following the privatisation of the former State Electricity Commission in the mid-1990s, the Terminal Station was acquired by the American company General Public Utilities, which purchased the SEC's transmission lines and terminal stations. It now operates as the Victorian Power Exchange.
Description:
The former Richmond Terminal Station, at 347 Mary Street, Richmond, is a three-storey rendered building with Architecturally Deco detailing. The building has cream-painted rendered walls with vertical streamlined grooved patterning, and vertical mouldings incorporating ventilation panels near the parapets. There are several tall, vertical window openings with multi-paned steel-framed obscured glazing. The top floor of the building, which was built as accommodation for an engineer, is smaller in plan, and set back from the main north and east walls.
Other, post-War, buildings on the site reduce the visual impact of the building, which once would have been a greater landmark in this largely residential part of south Richmond.
Significance:
The former Richmond Terminal Station is of local historical and architectural significance. It is a notable Architecturally Deco-styled building, unusually architecturally refined for a building of its type. Its significance has been diminished by the later construction of other large buildings adjacent to it,
but its is nonetheless a prominent element in an otherwise predominantly single-storey residential pocket in south Richmond.
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RICHMOND TERMINAL STATION - Physical Description 1
The former Richmond Terminal Station, at 347 Mary Street, Richmond, is a three-storey rendered building with Architecturally Deco detailing. The building has cream-painted rendered walls with vertical streamlined grooved patterning, and vertical mouldings incorporating ventilation panels near the parapets. There are several tall, vertical window openings with multi-paned steel-framed obscured glazing. The top floor of the building, which was built as accommodation for an engineer, is smaller in plan, and set back from the main north and east walls.
Other, post-War, buildings on the site reduce the visual impact of the building, which once would have been a greater landmark in this largely residential part of south Richmond.RICHMOND TERMINAL STATION - Integrity
not assessed
Heritage Study and Grading
Yarra - Richmond Conservation Study
Author: John & Thurley O'Connor, Ros Coleman & Heather Wright
Year: 1985
Grading:Yarra - City of Yarra Heritage Review
Author: Allom Lovell & Associates
Year: 1998
Grading: LocalYarra - City of Yarra Review of Heritage Overlay Areas
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 2007
Grading: Local
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