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TOWT'S COOL STORE & PACKING SHED
2893 Princes Highway GARFIELD NORTH, Cardinia Shire

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Cardinia Shire

Towts Cool Store & Packing Shed

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Statement of Significance
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Statement of Significance

Towt's cool store & packing shed is of importance to the Cardinia Shire because it provides evidence of the development of orcharding or vineyards in the district and the variety of farm houses and gardens in the district.

The cool store is also valuable for its: comparative age, among other cool stores and packing sheds; potential to interpret the site historically (physical integrity, oral and documentary evidence); expression of the lives or lifestyles of locally important people (Towt family) and its landmark quality; and rarity as a type (early packing shed and cool store).

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- Physical Description 1
  
  TOWT'S COOL STORE & PACKING SHED - Physical Description 1
  
  This large weatherboarded and gabled packing shed complex (now shop) and cool store (extended) is at the south-west corner of Garfield Road. There is an associated weatherboard verandahed farm house at the rear facing Garfield Road. The roofs are clad with corrugated-iron. The store buildings are typical of the type, being simple inside and out.
  
  The complex includes: weatherboard packing shed (72 x 40 feet) built c1938, two weatherboard cool stores (40 x 45) and (28 x 32) c1947 and c1963. a galvanised iron machinery shed (40 x 20) c1963 and a bin shed (28 x 50) and steel-frame implement shed, c19681.
  
  Physical Conditions
  
  TOWT'S COOL STORE & PACKING SHED - Physical Conditions
  
  A number of similarly clad and formed elements have been added to the exterior and the interior fitted out as a shop, in part.
  
  Historical Australian Themes
  
  TOWT'S COOL STORE & PACKING SHED - Historical Australian Themes
  
  Historical Themes
  
  3.4Orchardists and market gardeners, cool stores, packing sheds, etc
  
  10.6 Orchardists' homes, gardens
  
  11.0 Evidence of: Life style, housing and landscape choice of notable figures residing in the district
  
  Physical Description 2
  
  TOWT'S COOL STORE & PACKING SHED - Physical Description 2
  
  Associations - Robertson, William J; Towt, Arthur
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Cardinia - Cardinia Shire Heritage Study 1996
  
  Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
  Year: 1996
  Grading: Local
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