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Darley Refractories Pty. Ltd.

Other Name

Darley Firebrick Company

Location

Grey Street DARLEY, MOORABOOL SHIRE

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

An early tentieth Century industrial plant, buildings and chimneys, manufacturing firebricks for almost a century, and possibly since the 1880s. Sections of early buildings survive and three prominent brick chimneys: circular (southernmost, 1902), square(central, 1907) and northernmost (square, 1909). There are early clay brick hand presses and c1930s claybick processing equipment.

The equipment, plant, buildings, quarry and chimneys are of state historical significance as a representative embodiment of an early twentieth century industrial and extraction process.

It issocially significant, locally as a local landmark, used by the community for orientation.

Group

Manufacturing and Processing

Category

Factory/ Plant