Northcote Median PriceThe House price is 2% lower than last year.
Surrounding suburbs| Brunswick East | $1,291,500  | | Clifton Hill | $1,504,700  | | Fairfield | $1,480,600 | | Fitzroy North | $1,539,400 | | Thornbury | $1,337,700 |
Northcote Median RentThe House rent is 9% higher than last year.
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The former industrial complex of Joshua Pitt Pty Ltd at 52-60 and 71 Gadd Street, Northcote. Joshua Pitt established his tannery on this site in 1900. At this time, tanneries, bootmaking and allied industries were centred closer to Melbourne at Collingwood, but it was one of several firms that had established factories, or branches, in Darebin. The earliest warehouse and industrial buildings, generally on the north side of Gadd Street date from the early twentieth century when the firm established operations on this site. As the firm expanded further buildings were added and from the 1930s buildings began to be constructed on the south side of the street. The complex now comprises a group of brick industrial and administrative buildings on both sides of Gadd Street.
How is it significant?
The former industrial complex of Joshua Pitt Pty Ltd in Gadd Street, Northcote is of local historic significance to Darebin City.
Why is it significant?
Historically, the former industrial complex of Joshua Pitt Pty Ltd is significant as a representative example of a large twentieth century industrial complex. It provides evidence of the tanning industry, which was once one of the most important industries in Darebin in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Pitts was the largest tannery complex in Northcote and the complex is evidence of the municipality's prominence in Victoria's tanneries and boot making industries. Of the several tanneries that established in Darebin from the mid-nineteenth century it now the only tannery complex to survive substantially intact. (AHC criteria A.4, B.2, D.2) |
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