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Hop Kilns

Location Mossiface/SwanReach Road,, MOSSIFACE VIC 3885 - Property No B4026 File Number B4026 Level Local

[1/2] B4026 Hop Kilns [2/2] B4026 Hop Press

Statement of Significance

The Mossiface site consists of three buildings of historical interest. They all date from the early 1880s.
(a) A large rectangular wooden building consisting of a cooling-storage-packing shed and two kilns. The drying apparatus (consisting of brick furnaces, wooden scaffolding of the drying funnels, bricks which line the funnels, and drying racks) of both kilns are in good condition. A large nineteenth century iron screw press for bailing hops is located in its original position in the cooling-storage-packing shed. The roofs of the kilns are the original shingle structures but are disintegrating.
(b) Alarge rectangular red brick building positioned at right angles to the first one described above and consisting of a cooling-storage-packing shed and a single kiln area; the kiln has been dismantled and the original roof replaced with an iron covering.
(c)A small hut facing (a) and (b) but located on the other side of Swan Reach Road which passes through the property.
The hut housed itinerant hop-pickers in the 1880s but is now in an extremely poor condition. Together with the hop kilns at Riverbank Road in Bairnsdale these are the only structures that remain of the great hop growing industry that flourished in the Gippsland region in the 1880s.
Classified: 04/12/1980
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