Throssell's stores, 106-112 Hardware Street, Melbourne
Butler, Graeme1985
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Throssell's stores, 106-112 Hardware Street, Melbourne
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1985
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RESEARCH ADDED BY GRAEME BUTLER 2021:__________________________________________________Period: VictorianDATE: 1889;ASSOCIATIONS: Throssell, Frederick maltster;DESIGNER: Wharton, George?;BUILDER: Nott, Charles.GRAEME BUTLER & ASSOCIATES 2011, CENTRAL CITY (HODDLE GRID) HERITAGE REVIEWStatement of SignificanceWhat is significant?In May 1889 builder Charles Nott, of Grandview Ave, Prahran applied to erect these two stores in what was then called Burns Lane for Frederick Throssell. Throssell (of Throssell & Tankard) was a maltster who resided in a `gentlemen's villa', Sorrett in Sorrett Avenue, Malvern, and owned a brewery in Prahran. The designer was probably George Wharton who had carried out works for Throssell in the City of Melbourne at that time and at his Prahran brewery. After his death in 1908 this property was sold as part of an extensive portfolio and was described as `-2 Four-Storey Brick STORES, with Basements Land 49ft. 11 in. x 57ft. 3in. Rentals, £260 and rates'Later occupiers of these warehouses included Sun Electrics Co P/L bulk store in the 1940s; Hawkes Bros P/L hardware merchants 1910s-30s; Walter Emery hardware importer; S Cohen & Sons & Co hardware merchants bulk store from the Victorian and Edwardian-eras; and the National Cigarette Co P/L around 1900. The emphasis on hardware was typical for that part of the city, yielding one street name (Hardware Lane, former Wrights Lane), and emanating from proximity to Kirk's Horse Bazaar where carriage and horse fittings were needed as well as saddlery.George Wharton designed a number of both brewing related structures such as the notable c1882 Victoria Brewery brewing tower (Victorian Heritage Register) and other key buildings like the 1886 Melbourne Savings Bank Carlton Branch (Former) Elgin Street, the Uniting Church at Highbury Grove, Kew 1882-3; St Columb's Hawthorn Anglican Church 1882-3; and the significant See Yup Joss House 1866 (Victorian Heritage Register).These two parapeted and gabled brick stores have recently been gutted and integrated into an unrelated adjoining development but the glass atrium link at least allows visibility of their former north wall. Nevertheless their street façade is an impressive combination of rugged quarry-faced basalt plinth and two colour brickwork reds, cream) with a succession of arch forms up the elevation, full arched to segmental and then flat-arched at the top. The height of the stores is uncommon for their frontage width and lane location. All glazing and loading door joinery has been replaced but restoration options exist using the 1985 images of the stores which show them at a high integrity..How is it significant?Throstle's stores are significant historically and aesthetically to the Melbourne Capital City ZoneWhy is it significant?Although altered externally in detail Throstle's stores remain significant historically as exemplars of warehouses sited close to what was then the hardware merchandising centre of Melbourne town, near the mammoth Kirk's Horse Bazaar. Aesthetically the stores provide an uncommon combination of building height and siting as well as an impressive juxta-positioning of rugged quarry-faced basalt (plinth) and two colour brickwork (red, cream) with a well-chosen succession of window arch forms ascending the elevation..City of Melbourne i-Heritage:Central Activities District Conservation Study - Graeme Butler, 1984 Building Identification Form (BIF):Description/Notable Features Notable features include unpainted brickwork; high integrity for use; loading doors and catheads complete. (see also 63-77 Hardware St) Note windows reglazed since survey..City of Melbourne Building Permit Application (BA):29 May 1889 3914, ₤6/6/- 2 stores, B- Charles Nott Grandview Ave, Prahran, O- Frederick Throssell(see 1889, 3797; Burns Lane 23/10/1889 4182 Burns Lane, off Lonsdale `warehouse' ₤3/3/- for J Dynon & Company Wm Pitt, Cockram).Mahlstedt Fire Insurance Plan Series:Mahlstedt Plan 13 1910-1940s: shows as two 4-storey warehouses in Burns Lane each with lift an north street entry, off north side Lonsdale Stnorth of pair: W Emery, hardware merchantsouth of pair: S Cohen iron merchant.LEWIS, M- AUSTRALIAN ARCHITECTURE INDEX: RecordGeorge Wharton.Tenders wanted for alterations to malting house for Messrs. Throssell & Tankard, Prahran.Argus 20.1.1877, p 10George Wharton.Tenders wanted for enlarging kiln and malting house in Chapel Street, for Messrs. Throssell and Tankard.Argus 17.1.1881, p 3.VICTORIAN TITLES OFFICETRANSFER OF LAND application 22948 (Hoare, 1889) :CA4/29 North Melbourne(see application 10852)Mason (grantee) to Nicol1849 Gilbert Nicol to Michael Hoare ₤58/15/- land 50'x56'.1886-7 MH to Sarah Cozens ₤1450..Australia Death Index 1787-1985: Name: Sarah CozensDeath Place: Brighton, VictoriaAge: 74Father's name: Stark JnoMother's name: Sarah ChoronRegistration Year: 1890Registration Place: VictoriaRegistration Number: 642 )Name: Michael HoareDeath Place: Melton, VictoriaAge: 77Father's name: MichaelMother's name: Julia McNamaraRegistration Year: 1888Registration Place: VictoriaRegistration Number: 10612)Australia Death Index, 1787-1985about Frederic ThrossellName: Frederic ThrossellDeath Place: Malvern, VictoriaAge: 74Father's name: Throssell, JnoMother's name: Sarah KingsleyRegistration Year: 1908Registration Place: VictoriaRegistration Number: 10386.NEWSPAPERS (TROVE)`The Argus':Friday 1 January 1886Tankard maltsters of Flinders Lane partnership dissolved to become Throssell & Tankard.`The Argus': 19/7/1887TRANSFER OF LAND STATUTE 22948..MICHAEL HOAREthe elder of Melton in the county of Bourke, farmer, has applied to bring the land described ….Dated 16th day of July 1887LAND ..Part of Crown allotment 4, section 20 City of Melbourne parish of North Melbourne, County of Bourke, commencing on the eastern side of Burns lane 132 feet 11 inches north-westerly from the northern side of Lonsdale street, thence north-easterly .. 57 feet 3.1/2. inches north westerly along allotment 5 49 feet 3.1/4. inches south westerly 57 feet 3 inches and south easterly along Burns lane 49 feet 11 inches to tho commencing pointH C. A HARRISON,Deputy Registrar of TitlesJ Woolf, 20 Market St…solicitor for the applicantTuesday 6 November 1888Michael Hoare clerk of works of Faraday St Carlton probate granted to from will of late Michael Heany`The Argus': Saturday 1 December 1888Melton clearing sale of stock, furniture, farm implements of late Michael Hoare.`The Argus':Thursday 11 April 1889Letter from Mr F Throssell travelling through North America with focus on much better food or perishables transportation there than in the colony by use of refrigerated stores and vans. Hence availability of fruits out of season all over America .Saturday 16 March 1889Wharton has returned to MelbourneSaturday 4 May 1889Mr GEORGE WHARTON architect having this day ADMITTED his chief assistant Mr E. V. DOWN into PARTNERSHIP, the business will in future be carried on under tho title of Wharton and Down architects, 176 Collins street Dated this 1st day of May,1889Friday 30 August 1889, 27 July 1889`To let Warehouse in Burns-lane, off Lonsdale st.. Five flats with hydraulic lift each floor, well lighted, F Throssell, South Malvern' (only building of this scale shown in 1910 plan)(Wednesday 30 October 1889STORE to let, five flats, Wrights lane, off Lonsdale street west near Elizabeth street Apply John Dynon and Sons Lonsdale street..?)Saturday 30 August 1890APPRENTICE wanted stained glass works Chas Rogers and Co Burns lane Lonsdale St. WThursday 25 May 1893Fred Throssell attends Governors Levee by invitation. `The levee held by His Excellency the Governor in the morning at Government house was attended by a smaller number of gentlemen than usual -the customary arrangements were observed in connection with the vice regal function..'Thursday 15 October 1908Sale of Throssell estate - list of holdings Sorrett 11 room gentlemen's villa.`EXECUTORS' REALISING SALE RESIDENCU and INVESTMENTS Estate of Late Frederick ThrossellLot 1.MALVERN, S0RRETT, SORRETT AVENUEGENTLEMAN'S SUBSTANTIAL and COMMODIOUS Brick YILLA, 11 Rooms Stabling, Beautiful Grounds, II Acres 2 Roods 25 Perches, Splendid Subdivisional Block Extensive Frontage to Spring road on East Side.Lot 2MELBOURNE, 491, 495 FLINDERS-LANE -Two2- story Bluestone STORES, land … Rentals, £240 p a. and ratesLot 3MELBOURNE, 285-7-9 LITTLE LONSDALESTREET.-Two Brick Workshops and Two Story Shop and Dwelling. Land …ALONG BURNS-LANElot 3 A. (At Rear of Lot .1)MELBOURNE, 3O BURNS LANE - Old Brick and . W B. Stables, Sheds, WEATHERBOARD. Paint Shop Land… or thereabouts, along a right-of way.…Lot 4.MELBOURNE. 24, 26 BURNS LANF -2 Four-StoryBrick STORES, with Basements Land 49ft. 11in. x 57ft. 3in. Rentals, £260 and ratesLot 5..MELBOURNE. 1 THERRY STREET.CORNER VICTORIA-STHEET -2-Storv Brick. STORE, Brick , Office, G I. and Wooden Workshop, and Chimney Stack. … Rental, £140 per annum and rates Lot 6PORT MELBOURNE.-5 ACRES, Manufacturing Site, off Williamstown-road, at Rear of Taylor's Pipe Works.DIRECTORIES OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE-SANDS AND KENNY, SANDS & MCDOUGALL1944 106-112Harrison, McDonald & Co hardware merchantsCoulson, Robert manuf agentSun Electrics Co P/L bulk store1939 106-112 Sun Electrics Co P/L bulk store1935 106-112 Hawkes Bros P/L hardware merchants1930 106-112 Hawkes Bros P/L hardware merchants1924 (Burn lane east side) 24-26 Hawkes Bros P/L hardware merchants.1920 (Burn lane) livery stable adjoining24 Hawkes Bros P/L hardware merchants26 Emery, Walter hardware importer1915 (Burn lane) livery stable adjoining24 Hawkes Bros P/L hardware merchants26 Emery, Walter hardware importer.1910 (Burn lane)24 Cohen, S & Sons & Co hardware merchants bulk store26 Emery, Walter hardware importer.1905 Burns Lne in Lonsdale St, 26 Emery, Walter hardware importer30 Neumann, CR, coach builder painting room(1904 Throssell, Fredk. W., maltster, 15 Lit Flinders st; p.r. 'Sorrett,' Sorrett-av, Malv.)1904 Burns lane 26 Emery, Walter hardware importer, 28 Cohen, S Sons & Co bulk store.1900 26-28 National Cigarette Co P/L Theo G Howe, managing director1893 shows Burns Lane between 394 and 392- no listing. (also at 389-393 Lt Lonsdale) - alphabetical has Cohen, S., Sons & Co (Buckhotz, L.; Cohen, J. A.), wholesale ironmongers, 380 Lonsdale-st; no Emery as ironmonger or near site; has 408 Lonsdale St Dynon, J., & Sons, importers china, glass &fcygds and 407 Lt Lonsdale Dynon, J., & Sons, importers)(1893 Throssell, Frederick, Sorrett-av, Malv.)(1893: CozensCOZENS & HARVEY (Cozens , T.; Harvey,George), wholesale and retail ironmongers, 225and 227 Elizabeth -st. Tel Nos-915 eta916 WholesaleCozens, James , Patti-st, Ment.Cozens, Mrs Ann J., dressmaker, I Gertrude-st, F.Cozens, Thos. (Cozens & Harvey), Hampton-st, N. Btn.Cozens, Thomas, Warriston- st, Bin.Cozens, W., dairyman, 697 Sydney-rd, Bk.).Municipal rate books [RB]City of Melbourne Rate BooksVPRS 5780 MicroficheHardware Street 106-112– City of Melbourne – Bourke WardDate Rate no Occupier Owner Description NAV1900 1258 National Cigarette Co ltd Fredrick Throssell 26 Burns Lane, Bk. store 24 x 50 801259 Cohen sons & Co Fredrick Throssell Burns Lane, Bk. store 24 x 50 801260 Bridget Bradley Harry Emmeston Brick house 3 rooms 21 x 27 101261 John Mahoney Harry Emmeston Brick house 3 rooms 21 x 27 101262 James Henry Thornson John Dynon Brick store 4 flats 24 x 54 441890 1278 Blank Fredrick Throssell Brick store 5 flats 2501279 Blank Fredrick Throssell Brick store 5 flats 250
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