HO246 - Fayrefield Hat Factory (former) garden or landscape design, 197 Sherbourne Road, Eltham

SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT

What is significant?

Landscape fabric associated with:

-the 1950-60s

How is it significant?

Fayrefield Hats Factory garden is locally significant aesthetically and historically.

Why is it significant?

Fayrefield Hats Factory garden is among a small group of large scale factory pleasure gardens and the complex is perhaps the only factory and garden combination built in the Shire during Victoria's immediate post World War Two expansion era (Criterion A4).

The Fayrefield Hats Factory garden is a highly distinctive and orchestrated design including:

- concrete bridge remnant over creek

- Concrete terraces and garden bed or lawn edges, curved and straight;

- Concrete stair flights with landings and distinctive twist-bar wrought iron balustrade to creek from north side;

- informal stone steps,

- rough stone boulders;

- pedestals;

- distinctive curvilinear concrete lined water channels;

- random stone paving and fine faced random stone retaining walls,

- three main grassed terraces,

- organic and iris-shaped pools, fountains or elements, with blue mosaic tile lining in some patterns of stone and tile. (Criterion E1)

Group

Manufacturing and Processing

Category

Factory/ Plant