Sunnyside Wool Scour includes Humble & Son Wool Scouring Plant including interior
76 Tucker Street, BREAKWATER VIC 3219 - Property No 218721
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Statement of Significance
A Listed - State Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE - GRC - HISTORIC PLACES DOCUMENTATION SHEET NO. 148
The area downstream from the Breakwater was the earliest major industrial area of Geelong, being developed from the 1840's onwards predominantly with wool scours, fellmongers, tanneries and boiling down works. The wool industries of Geelong came to have national importance until after world war, as a wool processing and manufacturing centre. The Sunnyside Wool Scour, incorporating components of buildings and equipment from throughout its period of operation, remains as the only intact complex downstream of the Breakwater. The full range of equipment including the soaking tanks, sweat house, locally manufactured scour and press, survive. The site is of outstanding importance to the industrial and technological history of Geelong and Victoria.
RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES
Geelong Regional Commission Register
Historic Buildings Council Register
Australian Heritage Commission Register of the National Estate
National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Register
REFERENCES
Smith W - "The Break" privately produce film.
Smith, W - Unpublished Research Notes and personal communication.
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE - City of Geelong West - Urban Conservation Study - Building Identification Form
Historically, a small remnant of the early fellmongery works which led to the industrial developments of South Geelong and the continued prosperity from wool-oriented industry.
EXTERNALLY INTEGRITY: - The complex is all but gone with the exception of the earliest basalt section.
STREETSCAPE: - Visually connected to the adjacent Sunnyside complex, this site to be redeveloped.
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Sunnyside Wool Scour includes Humble & Son Wool Scouring Plant including interior - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION - City of Geelong West - Urban Conservation Study - Building Identification Form
Until recently a complex consisting of the modified early stone (basalt) and brick section, a later timber-framed drying sheds (also altered) and a simple early double-fronted timber cottage, the original fabric of this group has been recently reduced to the stone section. This section presumably one had a pitched roofline and evidently different floor levels. Red bricks used in machine rooms at the rear of the stone wing are pressed with the maker's name: 'Widdicombe Port Arlington and TH Widdicombe, Portarlington.
Widdicombe owned the Portarlington mill until it closed in 1874, as well as the adjacent brick yeards. His bricks were used in the Portarlington Berllerine Presbyterian church of 1872. Drysdale Anglican Church (1872).
By c1884 Thomas WIddicombe had moved to Ballarat after listings as a miller in the mid-1870's. Hence the presence of his bricks confirm the major improvement coursed out in 1874, apparently the recently demolished brick wing adjoining the stone section.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong Region Historic Buildings and Objects Study
Author: Allan Willingham
Year: 1986
Grading:
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SUNNYSIDE WOOL SCOURVictorian Heritage Register H1146
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SUNNYSIDE WOOL SCOURVictorian Heritage Inventory
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FORMER MARSHALL-MUNDAY WOOLSCOURVictorian Heritage Inventory
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