Dights Mill Complex (head race, turbine house base, tail race and basalt retaining wall), & Dights Falls, Yarra River
off Trenerry Crescent, ABBOTSFORD VIC 3067 - Property No 114215
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Statement of Significance
This property is on the Victorian Heritage Register - H1522.
For more information on this property, refer to the Victorian Heritage Register information.
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Dights Mill Complex (head race, turbine house base, tail race and basalt retaining wall), & Dights Falls, Yarra River - Physical Description 1
The remaining structures of the former Dight's Falls include the head race, the base of the turbine house, the tail race and a basalt retaining wall.
The inlet to the head race is marked by two large basalt and concrete piers between which a timber sluice gate was originally located. The piers are constructed in a combination of large squared blocks of basalt with a rock faced finish to the upper courses and a picked finish to the upper courses. The core of the piers is a combination of scoria rubble and boulders, and later concrete. This structure dates from at least 1862 and probably earlier.
The base of the turbine house is constructed of machine made bricks and is believed to date from the 1887 works designed by architects, Twentyman & Askew. Within the walls the shafts of two turbines are still visible above later fill. Massive riveted wrought iron or steel beams extend in a grid across the top of the walls and a lower single timber beam passes through the structure.
A substantial basalt lined tail race is indicated on the Board of Works Plan of c. 1895 has recently been exposed. Excavation in this area revealed the existence of a basalt floor to the race, approximately 3.2m below the existing ground level. The age of the race is uncertain, although it was clearly constructed after 1869 and is most likely to have been built during the refurbishment of the mill in the late 1880s.
The remains of a basalt retaining wall is visible on the north side of the island of land formed between the race and the river. The wall is in part visible in the 1869 photograph of the site and again in the Nettleton photograph of c. 1880s. It is constructed of squared rock faced basalt blocks and originally ran from the end of the tail race to the gates of the head race. Sections of the wall were either rebuilt or exposed during recent works. The turbines were also exposed and
conserved.Dights Mill Complex (head race, turbine house base, tail race and basalt retaining wall), & Dights Falls, Yarra River - Integrity
not assessed
Heritage Study and Grading
Yarra - City of Collingwood Conservation Study
Author: Andrew Ward & Associates
Year: 1989
Grading: ContributoryYarra - City of Collingwood Conservation Study
Author: Andrew Ward & Associates
Year: 1995
Grading: StateYarra - City of Yarra Heritage Review
Author: Allom Lovell & Associates
Year: 1998
Grading: StateYarra - City of Yarra Review of Heritage Overlay Areas
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 2007
Grading: State
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FORMER CONVENT OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDVictorian Heritage Register H0951
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DIGHTS MILL SITEVictorian Heritage Register H1522
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CLIFTON HILL RAILWAY STATION COMPLEXVictorian Heritage Register H1668
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"1890"Yarra City
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"AMF Officers" ShedMoorabool Shire
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"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
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'CARINYA' LADSONS STOREVictorian Heritage Register H0568
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1 Alexander StreetYarra City
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1 Botherambo StreetYarra City
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