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Former Jam Factory
LocationPart 500 Chapel Street SOUTH YARRA, STONNINGTON CITY LevelIncl in HO area indiv sig |
Statement of Significance
What is significant? How is it significant? Why is it significant?
The Jam Factory complex is situated on land which has been occupied by industrial buildings since the 1850s. The brewery and maltings which operated on the site from the 1850s until 1906 remain legible through the two-storey Labelling Building to Garden Street which retains its bluestone facade dating from the nineteenth century. This is understood to be the only built form to survive from the former Tankard Maltings Co occupation of the site. The later jam production uses are most legible in the western sections of the complex where original building volumes of the Sugar Plant, Main Office and Labelling Building, survive as do much of their original facades to Chapel and Garden Streets. The industrial usage of the site is enhanced by the presence an early chimney within the site. This is one of only two industrial chimneys to survive within the Municipality.
Those elements of the former Jam Factory noted above are of local social, historical and aesthetic significance.
The former Jam Factory is significant as a reminder of the former industrial character of the South Yarra area, and specifically of the brewery and maltings, which operated here from the 1850s until 1906, and of the jam factories which operated here form the 1870s until c1970s. The site is of historical significance as the headquarters of the Australian Jam Company (AJC) and Henry Jones IXL, major names in the history of the Victorian food industry. It is of social significance as an illustration of an early phase of local manufacturing, most specifically the sub theme 6.2.2 'Food Processing' identified in Council's Thematic Environmental History and as a major local employer through the twentieth century. The Jam factory is of local significance
as a landmark and contributory element within the popular Chapel Street shopping entertainment strip.
Group
Manufacturing and Processing
Category
Other - Manufacturing & Processing