UNION KNITTING MILLS (FORMER)
37-43 MUNRO STREET,, COBURG VIC 3058 - Property No 90517
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Statement of Significance
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UNION KNITTING MILLS (FORMER) - Physical Description 1
The Union Knitting Mills occupied a single storey red brick building with a wide rendered parapet, with plain horizontal mouldings, concealing two longitudinal hipped corrugated iron roofs. The entrance on Munro Street is marked by a higher parapet with vertical streamlined mouldings. Steel framed windows form a horizontal band between the parapet and a rendered string course at sill level. Three brick string courses between the windows further accentuate the building's horizontality. The original rendered sign, 'union knitting mills pty ltd' remains intact along the western parapet, still visible from passing trains.
Apart from the current occupants' non-permanent signage, the building remains remarkably intact externally.
Key Architectural Elements: face red brick and render facades
rendered plinth, windows sills and parapet
Context: Erected when Coburg was a developing suburb, adjacent to the railway line and not far from the large Lincoln Mills.
Comparative analysis: One of a number of knitting mills erected in the 1920s and 30s employing the steamilined Moderne Style, closely comparable with the Burgin and Buckstein Mills in Lygon Street, Brunswick.
Conservation Guidelines: remove cyclone wire screens from windowsHeritage Study and Grading
Moreland - City of Moreland Heritage Review
Author: Allen Lovell and Associates
Year: 1999
Grading: LocalMoreland - Northern Suburbs Factory Study
Author: Vines, G and M, Churchward
Year: 1992
Grading:Moreland - City of Coburg Heritage Conservation & Streetscape Study
Author: Timothy Hubbard Pty Ltd
Year: 1991
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