VICTORIAN ORCHARDISTS COOLSTORE & FRUIT
24-25 Beaconsfield Emerald Road BEACONSFIELD UPPER, CARDINIA SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
Victorian Orchardists Cool Store & Fruit Packaging Company packing shed, which dates from the 1920s, is of significance to the Cardinia Shire as symbolic of the development of orcharding in the district and, after the packing shed's conversion to a motor garage in the 1940s, of the growing importance of motor transport in the shire during the previous decade.
Victorian Orchardists Cool Store & Fruit Co-operative packing shed is of significance as an important component in the Charing Cross Civic and Commercial precinct. It is a reminder of the time when Upper Beaconsfield became an important orcharding district, and, as an early externally intact timber packing shed, is now a rare building type in the Shire.
Regional Significance
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VICTORIAN ORCHARDISTS COOLSTORE & FRUIT - Physical Description 1
This is a large gabled timber framed and clad store, fitted out internally as a motor garage of the 1940s. A faded sign stating `Victorian Orchardists..' is on the north side. Wall cladding is horizontal with vertical boarding in the gable-ends where there is a louvred vent. The roof is clad with corrugated iron, the main sliding doors (3 per side) are ledge & braced and vertical boarded and the windows are high hopper sashes. The floors are boarded internally.
VICTORIAN ORCHARDISTS COOLSTORE & FRUIT - Physical Conditions
The shed is externally complete with minor and early changes internally to convert it to a motor garage.
VICTORIAN ORCHARDISTS COOLSTORE & FRUIT - Historical Australian Themes
Historical Theme -3.4 Orchardists and market gardeners, cool stores, packing sheds, etc.
VICTORIAN ORCHARDISTS COOLSTORE & FRUIT - Physical Description 2
Associations - Victorian Orchardists Coolstore & Fruit PackagingCompany
Heritage Study and Grading
Cardinia - Cardinia Shire Heritage Study 1996
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 1996
Grading: Local
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