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MARCHANT'S AERATED WATERS & CORDIALS PTY LTD (FORMER)
Other NameMarchants Aerated Waters & Cordials Pty Ltd, Factory Location21-27 YORK STREET and 1-7/31 YORK STREET and 14 GARFIELD STREET RICHMOND, YARRA CITY
File NumberY2011:890LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? A gable-roofed building sits behind the parapeted building. It has undergone more extensive alterations in the flats conversion, but still retains red-brick walls with continuous concrete lintels. Edwardian stables that pre-date the Marchants building are located to the rear of the site, at 14 Garfield Street. The stables display an unusual use of the Egyptian Revival style. The building has been converted to flats. Additions and alterations resulting from the conversion are not significant. How is it significant? Why is it significant? The former Marchant's building at 21-31 York Street, Richmond is historically significant (Criterion A & H)for its associations with the nationally prominent company Marchants Aerated Waters & Cordials Pty Ltd,for the Garfield Street stables, representative of the transition from horse drawn to motor transport distribution of their products, and as a characteristic interwar factory, which provides tangible evidence of how Richmond became a centre of manufacturing in the twentieth century.
The former Marchant's building at 21-31 York Street, Richmond is significant. It was built for Marchants Aerated Waters & Cordials Pty Ltd in 1925, who occupied the site from the late 19th century, until at least the 1950s. The building is a major and distinctive element of the streetscape. Fronting the street is a two-storey, parapeted section of red brick. Bays are articulated with shallow engaged brick piers, and raised pavilions at either end of the facade. Ground-floor openings are set below a continuous concrete lintel (broken only by the brick piers), while there is smooth cement render between the piers above the first-floor openings. The three central openings are segmentally arched, adding interest to this austere industrial building.
The former Marchant's building at 21-31 York Street, Richmond is aesthetically and historically significant to Richmond and the City of Yarra.
The former Marchant's building at 21-31 York Street, Richmond is aesthetically significant (Criterion E)as a large well-preserved and distinctive industrial building, which is a local landmark, andfor the stables at 14 Garfield Street which display an unusual use of the Egyptian Revival style - seen in the battered pilasters to the pediment - in an industrial building.
Group
Manufacturing and Processing
Category
Factory/ Plant