Conference Paper

Author

Zweep, Martin

Title

The murtoa stick shed new life for a wheatbelt cathedral

In

16th Engineering Heritage Australia Conference: Conserving Our Heritage - Make a Difference!

Imprint

Engineers Australia, Barton, Australian Capital Territory, 2011, pp. 190-202

ISBN/ISSN

9780858258877

Url

https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.895365462828509

Abstract

Built as one of a small number of emergency grain storage facilities during the Second World War, the Murtoa No1 Grain Store, more commonly known as the Murtoa Stick Shed, is the last remaining building of its type. It is considered to be the largest timber framed shed in Australia. The building has been unused since 1989 and has progressively deteriorated while a new use was being sought. The Heritage Council of Victoria have recently funded conservation works to repair the building. The paper will examine the issues that have complicated undertaking conservation works in the past and will discuss the factors which caused the specific failure of structural members. The methods used to repair the building will be illustrated and the difficulties associated with finding a reuse for the building given its size, structure, isolation and location within a working grain receival site.

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• 16th Engineering Heritage Australia Conference: Conserving Our Heritage - Make a Difference! (Barton, Australian Capital Territory: Engineers Australia, 2011), 551 pp, https://search.informit.org/doi/book/10.3316/informit.9780858258877. Details