Watson & Paterson Former Bacon-Curing Factory
Cnr. Dundas Street and Plenty Road PRESTON, Darebin City
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Statement of Significance
The former Watson and Paterson bacon-curing factory is of historical significance in the metropolitan context.
The Watson and Paterson bacon-curing factory, established in 1862, may have been the first such works in Victoria. The existing buildings, dating from c1900 and the 1920s and still used for smallgoods manufacture, appear to be the last remnant of an important nineteenth century industry in what was then the rural district of Preston. Preston was a centre of pig farming from the 1860s and was the location of several bacon and ham curing works, including that established in 1875 by J C Hutton, later to become one of Melbourne's largest smallgoods manufacturers.
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Watson & Paterson Former Bacon-Curing Factory - Physical Description 1
The factory comprises a complex of brick buildings of one or two storeys. Nothing appears to survive of the 1862 timber factory building and the earliest of the existing buildings appears to have been constructed at about the turn of the century. The single-storey buildings along the Dundas Street frontage appear to have been constructed in the early 1920s. Roofs are covered with corrugated iron. The two-storey central building has segmentally arched windows, fitted with timber and metal louvres, and a louvred ridge vent
Heritage Study and Grading
Darebin - Darebin Heritage Review
Author: Andrew Ward
Year: 2000
Grading:
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PRESTON TRAMWAY WORKSHOPSVictorian Heritage Register H2031
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JUNCTION HOTELVictorian Heritage Inventory
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PENDERS PARKVictorian Heritage Inventory
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