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Former Comer Dairy
Location5 High Street PRAHRAN, STONNINGTON CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is Significant? How is it Significant? Why is it Significant? Architecturally, the former Comer Dairy is a good representative example of a small interwar suburban dairy. The villa is architecturally significant in its own right as an elegantly designed pre-boom Victorian Italianate style residence.
The former Comer Dairy, located at 5 High Street, Prahran, was established in 1926. It consists of a c1872 villa facing High Street with a 1926 dairy at the rear. The villa is a largely intact single-storey Victorian Italianate style building with bichrome brick walls. The dairy is a modest red-brick building with the name 'Comer Dairy' set in a rendered sign on the side elevation.
The former Comer Dairy is of local historical and architectural significance to the City of Stonnington.
The former Comer Dairy is historically significance as a rare surviving example of the small diaries that were once widespread in suburban areas, but become obsolete with refrigerated transport and industrial scale diary production. The Victorian villa at the front of the site helps to explain how small suburban dairies were operated as independent, family-run enterprises with the dairyman residing on site. This tradition was discontinued in the post war era with the move towards large centralised dairies.
Group
Farming and Grazing
Category
Dairy