Grain Stores
1-7, 9, 11-17 COLEBROOK STREET, and 35-37 TINNING STREET, BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY
-
Add to tour
You must log in to do that.
-
Share
-
Shortlist place
You must log in to do that.
- Download report
Statement of Significance
The location of the stores adjacent to the railway line demonstrates thekey role of the railways in the movement of essential produce, and this complex is a good example of an a major enterprise established in this location due to the link to the railway line. Although most of the railway sidings have been removed, evidence of this link remains in thelarge entry doors.
Architecturally, the complex is an excellent example of the extensive and substantial use of bluestone, an important local building material.
-
-
Grain Stores - Physical Description 1
The grain stores is a complex of bluestone buildings. The walls of the buildings are constructed of coursed, random bluestone blocks and the large expanses of hipped roofs are of corrugated iron. Arched and rectangular openings are trimmed with simple dressed bluestone and two openings form large entries for railway trucks. The northernmost building has three arched openings dressed in red brick.
The links to the railway line are still apparent with two large entrances and parts of the rail sidings which provided access by rail trucks. Sidings from the line were common, and those across Colebrook Street into the grainstores, part of the southernmost of which still exists, were the last sidings remaining in Brunswick.
Key Architectural Elements:
coursed random bluestone construction
dressed bluestone sills and quoining
arched openings with dressed bluestone or red brick dressings
Conservation Guidelines:
Preferably reinstate windows and doors to original designsHeritage Study and Grading
Moreland - Keeping Brunswick's heritage: A Report on the Review of the Brunswick Conservation Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1990
Grading: StateMoreland - City of Moreland Heritage Review
Author: Allen Lovell and Associates
Year: 1999
Grading: Local
-
-
-
-
-
BRUNSWICK FIRE STATION AND FLATSVictorian Heritage Register H0916
-
FORMER MELVILLES GRAIN STOREVictorian Heritage Register H0705
-
GLENCAIRNVictorian Heritage Register H0375
-
-