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YORKSHIRE TEXTILE MILLS (FORMER)

Other Name

Factory

Location

2-4 INVERNESS STREET,, BRUNSWICK EAST VIC 3057 - Property No 18735

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

What is Significant?
The former Yorkshire Textile Mills at 2-4 Inverness Street Brunswick East, and constructed as the Melbourne Motor Bus Co. garage in 1913, added to in 1916 and again in 1926, is significant. 2 Inverness Street appears to contain the structure of the former motor garage which predates the use of the site for textile manufacturing.

How is it significant?
The former Yorkshire Textile Mills at 2-4 Inverness Street Brunswick East, is of local historical, architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it significant?
Historically the Yorkshire Textile Mills is significant as of one of the many textile manufacturers operating in Brunswick during the interwar period - estimated in the 1930s to number 63 different businesses. The site is historically significant from 1913-1916 as the location for the short-lived Melbourne Motor Bus Co. From 1918 the site is significant as the Yorkshire Textile Mills, a supplier of worsteds and cotton tweeds to the clothing manufacturer and 'pioneer of the clothing trade' James Denniston & Co. Pty Ltd. (Criterion A)
The Yorkshire Textile Mills is significant as an Interwar industrial building and belongs to a declining class of places, that of manufacturing industry in Moreland. Its principal characteristics are evident in the two buildings occupying the corner of Albion and Inverness Streets that comprise a gable roofed timber and iron building that may contain part of the structure of the former motor garage; and a brick and iron sawtooth roofed factory. (Criterion D)
The Yorkshire Textile Mills is aesthetically significant for its distinctive facade to Inverness Street comprising render panels, red and clinker brick walls with simple brick detail, steel-framed windows and doors, and featuring distinctive signage of the period. This facade and the building at 4 Inverness Street is significant as an early work of the architect Alec S. Eggleston who later went on to found the highly influential architectural practice of Eggleston McDonald & Secomb in 1954. (Criterion E)

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