E.P. Robinson WoolScourer

Location

13 Bridge Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 201105

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

B Listed - Regional Significance

The complex of buildings on this industrial site contains structures and works which reflect a great many facets of site activity. There is evidence of the early use of the site for wool scouring with later developments still remaining. There are also aspects of more recent millinery activity still obvious and in use today. Much of what remains however, in terms of structures, is not significant and represents a typical site layout which has evolved over time with the most dominant characteristics reflecting recent decision-making and past 1960s economic planning. The significant cultural property on the site is the important working remains of scourlng and carbonising lines, with the associated overhead belt-drive machinery in the region, a feature

Group

Farming and Grazing

Category

Woolscour