Lime Kilns (Hearne Parade)
Limeburners Point, GEELONG EAST VIC 3219 - Property No 312415
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Statement of Significance
A Listed - State Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE - GRC - HISTORIC PLACES DOCUMENTATION SHEET NO. 194
The lime kilns believed to the constructed by Taylor and Bouchier in 1841, may be the oldest of those established in the mid nineteenth century in Victoria to meet the pressing demand for lime for building construction. The kilns are of paramount archaeological significance as illustrations of this once critical primitive industrial process. In 1852 George Cakebread acquired the site from Caleb Joshua Jenner and developed the industry. Cakebread's lime was almost universally adopted for building construction in the Western District until 1880, when superior supplies were won from kilns at Lara and Waurn Ponds,
RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES
Geelong Regional Commission Register
Historic Buildings Council Register
REFERENCES
National Trust of Australia (Victoria), File No. 1637.
Geelong Advertiser - 20th December, 1841, 9th January, 1845, 30th August, 1851.
Brownhill, W. R. - A History of Geelong and Corio Bay, Wilke & Co., Melbourne, 1955, pp. 402-403, 406-408, 608-609, 639.
Sutherland, A. (Ed) - Victorian and Its Metropolis - Past and Present, McCarron Bird, Melbourne, 188, Vol II, P. 152, Biographical sketch of George Cakebread, Vol II, pp 746-7. Biographical sketch on Hon. Caleb Joshua Jenner.
Beever, Margot, 'Jenner Caleb Joshua (1830-1890)' Australian Dictionary if Biography, 6 volumes, volume 4, Pike, Douglas (Ed), Melbourne University Press, 1972, p.476.
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Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong Region Historic Buildings and Objects Study Volume 2
Author: Allan Willingham
Year: 1986
Grading:
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FIRST CUSTOMS HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0185
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LIME KILN COMPLEXVictorian Heritage Register H1288
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EASTERN PARK & GEELONG BOTANIC GARDENSVictorian Heritage Register H2095
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