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Corio Terrace (Form) - Geelong Woolstores Historic Area

Other Name Geelong Club Location 74 Brougham Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No B3771 File Number B3771 Level State

[1/2] B3771 Fmr Corio Terrace [2/2] B3771 Fmr Corio Terrace

Statement of Significance

Designed by Mr C D Figgis as a club in 1888 and still in use as a club, the building has an unusual two storey brick, cast iron and balustraded front verandah on a bluestone base. The separate billiard room is included in the Classification but not the later alterations and additions.
Classified :11/12/1975
Revised: 03/08/1998
Statement of Significance: The Geelong Woolstores Conservation Historic Area is one of remarkable coherence and integrity. Standing at the corner of Geringhap and Brougham Streets, the row of woolstores stretches away to the east in a unified scene, unequalled in terms of intactness and coherence elsewhere in Victoria. The Area represents an important aspect of the process of settling the land in Victoria . The consequences of industry created a new economy, a new landscape and a new way of life. In terms of the lives of all of us as inhabitants of an industrial nation, it is the most relevant period of our past, not only because it is the most recent, but because the specific changes wrought during the last century provide the foundation of our present society. Significant woolstore groups certainly exist elswehere in Australia, for example at Pyrmont and Ultimo in New South Wales, but those structures do not match the group qualities of the Geelong woolstores and were not specifically erected for the storage, handling and marketing of wool.
Historic Area B2729 Classified: 04/08/1980.