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Former T. Robinson Implement Works

Location 210-220 Hall Street,, SPOTSWOOD VIC 3015 - Property No B6322 File Number B6322 Level State

[1/1] B6322 T Robinson Implement

Statement of Significance

Robinson's implement works is of state significance as a rare surviving nineteenth century industrial complex of timber frame with corrugated iron cladding and neo-Classical facade.
The structure demonstrated the importance of the agricultural implement industry in Melbourne in the late nineteenth century and the prominent position of Robinson as one of the largest and oldest agricultural implement manufacturers in Australia. The degree of ornamentation on the facade is highly unusual for an industrial building and the building is possibly a unique surviving example, at such a large scale, of the use of normally prosaic materials such as timber and iron for a neo-Classical treatment following the demolition of the Montague Shipping sheds. Furthermore, the associations with the Williamstown railway line through the surviving railway siding and remnants of other nearby and contemporary implement works such as International Harvester and Hugh Lennon, exemplifies the importance of the Western Suburbs in general and Spotswood in particular, as a centre for expansion of agricultural implement and other metal manufacturing industries in the late nineteenth century.
Classified: 15/04/1992