Barwon Woollen Mill Co. Works
7 Factories Road, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 213147
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Statement of Significance
B Listed - Regional Significance
Significance
Historically, the site of and part of one of Geelongs and the States earliest group of woollen mills and earliest secondary industries. It is externally (in part) one of the States oldest group of factories.
Architecturally, the Factories Road complex is both early and stylisticallydistinctive for an industrial complex, also the red brick parts of the complex relate closely to the Valley Mills on the north.
Conservation analysis required.
REFERENCES
Geelong Advertiser - 23/10/74
Geelong Advertiser 24.12.745
IBID
Investigator 3.1975.p11f
Cope p 293
Investigator 3. 1986 p. 8 and 1987 P. 7.
Lang "Wool Textiles and G R King' in the Investigator 6. 1983 p41f
News of the Week 21.3.12
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Barwon Woollen Mill Co. Works - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
(Further Inspection needed)
In factories Road, the coloured brickwork, basalt plinth, castellated parapet and bell-rower make the complex visually unusual and perhaps the most valuable of the 19th century Geelong mill structures, albeit altered and reduced in scale. The application of the coloured brick-work resembles Davidson and Henderson's 41-43 McKillop Street (1870); the castellated tower also suggesting the firm's Scottish Baronial inspirations.
EXTERNAL INTEGRITY
Openings sealed up, fencing replaced and part of the brickwork painted, Reputedly a storey has been removed.
STREETSCAPE
Relates historically and visually to the two Swanston Street mill complexes to the north and west.]
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1993
Grading:
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Price HouseGreater Geelong City
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ResidenceGreater Geelong City
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Residence 'Mena'Greater Geelong City
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