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Former Camperdown Cheese & Butter Factory

Other Names The Camperdown Cheese Company Pty Ltd ,  Bonlac Foods Limited Location 325 Manifold Street,, CAMPERDOWN VIC 3260 - Property No B6376 File Number B6376 Level Local

[1/1] B6376 Camperdown Cheese &

Statement of Significance

This building is architecturally significant at a local level for its contribution to the townscape at the edge of town and country as well as the amount of careful detailing and balanced exterior. Camperdown Butter Factory is also historically and socially significant as the successful outcome of the land redevelopment movement in the Western District. Its position at the front of the new modern factory exemplifies the strength and continuance of the dairying industry in the Western District and links the old to the new. Technologically the company was at the forefront of many technological advances such as the Bell CSIRO automatic cheesemaker and although this was used in the later additions to the original building, the fact that the company maintained its position on the original site, and maintained its position at the leading edge of dairy technology, strenghtens the case of this building.
Classified 16/09/1992

File note 28/06/2012: Central section of building destroyed by fire 01/04/2011