LINCOLN MILLS (FORMER)
82-92 GAFFNEY STREET, COBURG, MORELAND CITY
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Statement of Significance
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LINCOLN MILLS (FORMER) - Physical Description 1
The Gaffney Street frontage of the Lincoln Mills was in built in two stages, a two storey red brick section (1919) with a rectangular plan and a terracotta tiled gabled roof; and a two storey addition on Gaffney Street in the Moderne style. The original section features concrete dressings and plinth with large double-hung sash windows, and four paned double hung sashes on the rear elevation. The c.1948 addition has cream brick walls with a Manganese brick plinth, concrete dressings and painted steel framed windows. Curved windows flank the entrance and there is a tower on the south-east corner, projecting from the main elevation.
The complex also comprises a number of single storey red brick factories with corrugated asbestos saw tooth roofs with opaque glass or vented skylights. The factory bounding Gaffney Street, west of the main building, is of red brick construction.
Key Architectural Elements: cream brick and render Moderne facade with manganese brick plinth
original lincoln mills sign on front facade
Context: When first built, the Lincoln Mills were on the outskirts of Melbourne's built-up area in an almost rural landscape. The industrial area either side of Gaffney Street developed following the opening of Lincoln Mills and as a declared industrial zone of the Coburg Council, which promoted the establishment of industry in the area. Gaffney Street became the centre of Coburg's textile industry in the interwar years. Other major firms such as Anderson's Hosiery and Kaora Weaving Mills were located here and traded with Lincoln for supply of weaving yarn.
Condition and integrity: Windows and doors in the western section have been reconstructed and additional signs have been painted on the office facade. One of the original two chimneys has been demolished.
Comparative analysis: One of a few large textile mills established in the early twentieth century (eg. Hilton, Yarra Falls, Tweedside), which contrasts in scale and function with the established mills of Geelong in their specialisation of certain parts of the process, for example, combing and spinning or production of hosiery. Compares in both scale and construction with the Yarra Falls Mills in Collingwood.
Conservation Guidelines: remove non-original signage
remove paint from cream brick surfaces
reinstate original colour scheme to rendered surfaces
remove non-original door canopiesHeritage Study and Grading
Moreland - City of Moreland Heritage Review
Author: Allen Lovell and Associates
Year: 1999
Grading: LocalMoreland - City of Coburg Heritage Conservation & Streetscape Study
Author: Timothy Hubbard Pty Ltd
Year: 1991
Grading:Moreland - Northern Suburbs Factory Study
Author: Vines, G and M, Churchward
Year: 1992
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HM PRISON PENTRIDGEVictorian Heritage Register H1551
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HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH COMPLEXVictorian Heritage Register H0959
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ARUNDELVictorian Heritage Register H1948
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