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RUSSELL BROS. TANNERY (FORMER)

Location

28-34 ROONEY STREET and 20-24 ROSE STREET RICHMOND, YARRA CITY

File Number

Y2011:9922

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The former Russell Bros. tannery at 28-34 Rooney Street and 20-24 Rose Street, Richmond is significant. Built in 1906, it is a three-storey factory building of red brick with a gabled roof. Its main architectural feature is a parapeted gable to Rooney Street with corbelling to the ends. Broad, flat brick stringcourses divide off each storey on the facade and minor elevations. The building has recently been converted to flats.

Non-original alterations and additions including the modern entries, stairwell-windows and balconies, added during the conversion to flats, are not significant.

How is it significant?
The former Russell Bros. tannery at 28-34 Rooney Street and 20-24 Rose Street, Richmond,is historically and architecturally significant to Richmond and the City of Yarra.

Why is it significant?
The former Russell Bros. tannery is historically and architecturally significant:

. as a tangible reminder of a key period in Richmond's industrial history during the early twentieth century and in particular of tanneries, which were an important nineteenth century industry. (Criterion A)

. as a well-preserved example of the building type, a type which is particularly evocative of this part of Richmond where fellmongering has been carried out since the 1860s. (Criterion D)

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