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Moore’s Cool Store

Location 180 CHERRY TREE ROAD HURSTBRIDGE, NILLUMBIK SHIRE Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

The timber cool store at 180 Cherry Tree Road, Hurstbridge, built c1936, is significant. Elements that contribute to the significance of the place include: ? original single-storey form and scale; ? original broken gable roof with corrugated metal cladding; and ? original weatherboard-clad walls and early windows and doors, including the timber door on the east elevation visible from the street.The timber cool store at 180 Cherry Tree Road, Hurstbridge, is of local historical, rarity and representative significance to the Shire of Nillumbik.The timber cool store at 180 Cherry Tree Road, Hurstbridge, is historically significant as one of only a few such buildings that survive in the Shire of Nillumbik from the 1920s and 30s. Built c1936 as a private cool store for orchardist Thomas Clarke, the cool store continues to be used for its original purpose in association with the continuing agricultural activities on the property. It provides important evidence of the long-standing day-to-day operations of the local orchards from the interwar period. As one of only a few surviving interwar cool stores in the Shire, the timber cool store is important as an increasingly rare structure that was once common in the Shire of Nillumbik, where the orcharding was one of its major industries. The subject cool store is important as an example of a private cool store built for the property owner. (Criteria A and B) The cool store is also significant as an example of a once common building type in the Shire during the interwar period. The weatherboard-clad cool score incorporated packing facilities and refrigeration plant for long-term preservation of the fruits, which was essential for local orchards. Its basic timber construction and simple form including the broken gable roof is also representative of the industrial timber buildings erected for agricultural use in rural properties. (Criterion D)