O.T. Chimney
Part 181-187 High Street PRAHRAN, STONNINGTON CITY
Chapel Street Precinct
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The former Kia-ora/Red Tulip factory complex is notable as one of a small number of large early industrial sites within the Windsor/South Yarra area. The original cordial manufacture and later chocolate production uses of the site were largely overwritten as part of the conversion of the factory to apartments through the 1990s. Nonetheless, the early industrial use of the site remains legible through some remnant facades and by the presence an early chimney to Hillingdon Place. This is one of only two, large industrial chimneys to survive within the Municipality.
How is it significant?
The OT chimney is of local social, historical and aesthetic significance.
What is significant?
The former Kia-ora/Red Tulip factory is significant as a reminder of the former industrial character of the South Yarra and Windsor and specifically of the food processing enterprises which operated on the site from the c.1910 until the 1980s. The site is of historical significance as the headquarters of the Kia-ora Cordials and Red Tulip Chocolates, major names in the history of the Victorian and international food industries. The site generally, and the chimney in particular, is of social significance as an illustration of an early phase of local manufacturing, most specifically the sub theme, 6.2.2 'Food Processing', identified in Council's Thematic Environmental History. The chimney is significant as a local landmark visible from a range of local vantagepoints.
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O.T. Chimney - Physical Description 1
The former Red Tulip factory occupied much of the site bounded by Anchor Place, Clifton Street, High Street and Hillingdon Place. At the time of its closure in the 1980s, the site contained a group of handsome, red brick buildings to Anchor and Hillingdon Places, some generic sheds and production areas and outdoor forwarding and receiving bays. A boiler room and ornate chimney to the Hillingdon Place frontage provided steam to the factory. The chimney survives in good condition. It was constructed in red face brick adopting a circular cross-section tapering to a rendered cap. Decorative brackets to the underside of the cap are also of face brick. MMBW plans suggest that the chimney was constructed c.1910s. Chocolate manufacturers, Red Tulip, occupied the site from 1965. However, painted 'OT' branding to the chimney - referring to a cordial manufactured on the site through the early part of the twentieth century - survives.
Heritage Study and Grading
Stonnington - OT Chimney Citation
Author: Bryce Raworth Pty Ltd
Year: 2011
Grading: A2Stonnington - HO126 Chapel Street Precinct Citation Review
Author: John Statham
Year: 2013
Grading:
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PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 1467Victorian Heritage Register H1032
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PRAHRAN TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0203
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FORMER POLICE STATION AND COURT HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0542
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