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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Former Wright & Edwards Erecting Shops Public Transport Corporation Wagon Repair Shops Footscray Road (off), NORTH MELBOURNE VIC 3051 - Property No B6453	The former Wright and Edwards erecting shops, now the Public Transport Corporation Wagon Repair Shops, are significant at the State level as an important and sole surviving privately owned nineteenth century rolling stock works in the metropolitan area. They compare with the now demolished workshops of Robison Bros and Co, Johnson and Co, P Bevan, Miller and MacQuistan and James Rawlings and are directly comparable with the Newport railway Workshops. Their equipment of note ... more	B6453	State
Former Wood's Pioneer Store Reg Hunt Motors 518 - 538 High Street,, PRESTON VIC 3072 - Property No B6488	The former Wood's Store, built by 1870, is of local historical and social importance as Preston's first general store and post office and for its association with the Wood family who were prominent local pioneers. It was the site where local residents named their village "Preston" and it was used as the meeting place and centre of town for several decades. The former Wood's Store is architecturally significant as a substantially original building dating from Preston's early years of ... more	B6488	Demolished
Former Wattle Tree Hotel Glendearg 196 Wattletree Road,, MALVERN VIC 3144 - Property No B3296	A single storey weatherboard clad timber structure constructed prior to April 1855 as an eight room Wayside Inn with stableswhich was originally conducted by Thomas Griffiths. The colonial vernacular style hostelry was conducted by a succession of publicans until c 1890, when the establishment became a private residence. A building of simple forms, with timber verandah and restrained colonial details, it is of architectural interest as an early hotel which survives to ... more	B3296	Regional
Former Wesleyan Methodist Church Church Street, MAJORCA VIC 3207 - Property No B3888		B3888	File only
Former Wesleyan Methodist Church & Organ Uniting Church 23 Service Street, CLUNES VIC 3370 - Property No B3183	Church Statement of Significance: A particularly idiosyncratic bluestone church begun in 1864, with a gallery on cast iron columns dating from 1868, but dating substantially from 1871. The facade incorporates a four light perpendicular Gothic window and a squat octagonal turret with an oversized roof. The interior, though it has subsequently been partitioned into two , includes cast iron gallery balustrading, carved hammer beam ceiling and a small pipe organ of unknown provenance. ... more	B3183	Local
Former Warrnambool Cheese & Butter Factory Co. Ltd. ACME factory , Kraft Foods Allansford Road,, ALLANSFORD VIC 3277 - Property No B6384	The Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Company Ltd, more commonly known as the ACME factory, is historically and socially significant at the Local level as the site of the second cooperative butter factory in Victoria. The site is important for its development of the original ACME dairy dating from 1886, and the current sinage testifies to this historic link. Technologically the site is important for its role in developing a simple pasteurising process from this early date. More ... more	B6384	Local
Former Wesleyan Methodist Church Complex Methodist Church , Auburn Uniting Church 81 Oxley Road, (cnr Hepburn Street), HAWTHORN VIC 3122 - Property No B4167	A veritable cathedral of Victorian Wesleyanism in which the brilliant young architect Alfred Dunn reinterpreted the Lombardic design of the Independent Church, Collins Street, in American Romanesque and using deep red and brown brickwork. The building was recognised as the finest Wesleyan church in Victoria, and the school and parsonage, while simpler, are also substantial, of the same materials and sympathetic in style. All of this reflects the position of the Hawthorn circuit as ... more	B4167	Regional
Former Westgarth Theatre Former Name Valhalla, Now Palace Theatre 89 High Street,, NORTHCOTE VIC 3070 - Property No B6619	The former Westgarth Theatre, erected in 1921 for the Westgarth Theatre Pty. Ltd., is of local significance as an early and essentially intact example of a cinema building constructed in a decade of unprecedented growth in the motion picture industry. The oldest operating purpose-built cinema in Melbourne, the former Westgarth Theatre is historically significant for its association with a major form of popular entertainment in the twentieth century. As a Greek-language cinema ... more	B6619	Local
Former Werribee Police Station 129 Synnot Street,, WERRIBEE VIC 3030 - Property No B7052	The Former Werribee Police Station, built in 1862 and later years, is of local architectural and historical significance. Architecturally, the building is an early example of a simple domestic type of police station. Historically, the building served as Werribee's former police house, an important public building within a rural community. Classified: 02/10/2000	B7052	Local
Former Wesleyan Methodist Church Uniting Church , Methodist Church Beal Street,, BIRREGURRA VIC 3242 - Property No B4799		B4799	File only

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