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Tarwin Lower Butter Factory (former)
53-57 River Drive TARWIN LOWER, South Gippsland Shire

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Tarwin Lower Butter Factory (former)

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Statement of Significance

What is Significant?
The former Tarwin Lower Butter Factory, constructed in 1930, at 53-57 River Drive, Tarwin Lower.

Why is it Significant?
The former Tarwin Lower Butter Factory is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the township and district of Tarwin Lower.

Historically, it demonstrates the importance of Butter Factories to the development of small rural townships. (AHC criteria - A.4 and D.2) Aesthetically, it is substantially intact example of a small freestanding interwar butter factory, and is an important landmark at the entrance to Tarwin Lower township. (AHC criterion - E.1)

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- Physical Description 1
  
  Tarwin Lower Butter Factory (former) - Physical Description 1
  
  The former Tarwin Lower Butter Factory at 55-57 River Drive, Tarwin Lower is a brick single gable structure with a corrugated iron roof with a central long clear storey vent. The base of the building finished in roughcast stucco, is assumed to be of reinforced concrete and is capped by a brick soldier course. The red brick cavity walls are capped by a concrete ring beam supporting the timber trussed roof structure. Because the site is relatively flat, the delivery bay end at the north has the ground built up to achieve the higher floor level to permit the gravity flow of the process.
  
  The large rear exit now has a roller shutter door. The gable ends are of vertical battened cement sheet panels with a narrow louvred vent at the peak. There is a long skillion weatherboard extension to the east side at the front and a short corrugated iron skillion behind it.
  
  The building occupies a prominent position at the entry to Tarwin Lower on the corner between River Drive and the Walkerville Road.
  
  Physical Description 2
  
  Tarwin Lower Butter Factory (former) - Physical Description 2
  
  Style
  
  Interwar industrial
  
  Historical Australian Themes
  
  Tarwin Lower Butter Factory (former) - Historical Australian Themes
  
  Thematic Context
  
  Commercial Enterprise
  
  Sub-Themes
  
  Dairying Industries & Milk, Butter and Cheese Factories
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  South Gippsland - South Gippsland Heritage Study
  
  Author: David Helms with Trevor Westmore
  Year: 2004
  Grading:
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- JOHN SIMPSON GRAVE
  
  Victorian Heritage Inventory
- JOHN SIMPSON MEMORIAL
  
  South Gippsland Shire
- TARWIN LOWER MEMORIAL HALL
  
  South Gippsland Shire