KONGWAK CO-OPERATIVE BUTTER & CHEESE FACTORY (FORMER)
1486 KORUMBURRA-WONTHAGGI ROAD, KONGWAK, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The cheese factory, constructed in 1941, is a large wide span low pitched gable structure with a corrugated asbestos cement roof carried on steel trusses. The front section is raised to meet the delivery bay level and the balance is depressed to accommodate the manufacturing process. The front section is wrapped in a rendered brick parapet wall with horizontally proportioned window and loading bay openings. This wall is designed in Art Deco/Moderne style with horizontal end grooves, raised sections at either side, louvred paired vents in the raised pylons and half height pilasters between openings.
Aesthetically and architecturally, the 1941 cheese factory designed by TC McCullough is a locally rare example of the art deco/moderne style, which is expressed in a spare, but powerful way. It is the superior interwar factory in the Shire, and the use of such a progressive commercial styling demonstrates the importance of the dairying industry at that time. (AHC criterion - E.1)
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KONGWAK CO-OPERATIVE BUTTER & CHEESE FACTORY (FORMER) - Physical Description 1
The Korumburra Co-operative Butter & Cheese Factory was constructed in about four stages between 1896 and 1941 with the earlier stages situated closer to the creek. There doesn't appear to be any surviving fabric of the first timber factory and what is presumed to be the earliest surviving building, which probably dates from 1925, is a single gable structure parallel to the road with the delivery bays to the west on higher land and the production floor lower and closer to the adjacent creek. It is a simple piered brick structure with a clear storey vent at the floor level transition and square window openings between the piers.
The cheese factory, constructed in 1941, is a large wide span low pitched gable structure with a corrugated asbestos cement roof carried on steel trusses. The front section is raised to meet the delivery bay level and the balance is depressed to accommodate the manufacturing process. The front section is wrapped in a rendered brick parapet wall with horizontally proportioned window and loading bay openings. This wall is designed in Art Deco/Moderne style with horizontal end grooves, raised sections at either side, louvred paired vents in the raised pylons and half height pilasters between openings.
(Note: More detailed analysis, including internal investigation, is required to properly document the actual sequence of development and extent of surviving fabric from each phase of development)Heritage Study and Grading
South Gippsland - South Gippsland Heritage Study
Author: David Helms with Trevor Westmore
Year: 2004
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