DOWNS & SONS ROPE & CORDAGE WORKS (FORMER)
64-72 TINNING STREET, 7-9 CASSELS ROAD, 13 & 15 LA ROSE STREET, and 1-19 & 2-16 ROPE WALK, BRUNSWICK, MORELAND CITY
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Statement of Significance
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DOWNS & SONS ROPE & CORDAGE WORKS (FORMER) - Physical Description 1
64-72 Tinning Street is a two storey bichrome building with a simple gabled roof. The plain facade is of face red brick, relieved by two cream brick string courses and cream brick diamond patterns along the south facade. The ground floor windows are arranged singly, whilst those on the upper floor (apparently later additions) are arranged in pairs. All are timber-framed with double-hung sashes and rendered sills. The long gabled roof is parapeted on all sides except the east, where it terminates in a simple timber bargeboard.
7-9 Cassels Road is a single storey red brick building with cream-painted rendered plinth to facade, parapet and entrance porch. The exceedingly plain parapet sits upon square corbels and has a square profile coping. Timber-framed double-hung sash windows sit between wide brick piers. The small entrance porch has a corbelled concrete canopy and three small highlight windows between the parapet and the canopy. Externally, the building remains intact, apart from non-original aluminium-framed front entry doors.
At the rear (to the north-east) of these two buildings is a complex of red brick sawtooth-roofed factory buildings.
Key Architectural Elements: Tinning Streettwo-storey bichrome brick building
Cassels Roadsingle storey face red brick and render Edwardian building with timber-framed double-hung windows
Context: The cramped site is set in a residential area that grew up after the establishment of the original 1880s rope walk.
Comparative analysis: Brunswick has had a concentration of rope works including George Jones' Rope and Twine Makers in DeCarle Street from 1897, McNally's Rope Factory in John Street, James Miller & Co. F.J. Wolfe Cordage Manufacturers in Albion Street and the Brunswick Rope Works that operated on this site fom 1888 10 1898. With the recent demolition of most of Miller's works, Downs is the only intact rope works in Brunswick and the best surviving in Melbourne.
Conservation Guidelines: Tinning Streetremove paint from brick parapet on south facade
Cassels Roadpreferably reinstate front doors to original or sympathetic designHeritage 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: LocalMoreland - City of Moreland Heritage Review
Author: Allen Lovell and Associates
Year: 1999
Grading:Moreland - Northern Suburbs Factory Study
Author: Vines, G and M, Churchward
Year: 1992
Grading:
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FORMER MELVILLES GRAIN STOREVictorian Heritage Register H0705
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GLENCAIRNVictorian Heritage Register H0375
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THE AMERICAN COTTAGEVictorian Heritage Register H0139
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