Office Sites

This is a five-storey interwar commercial building (warehouse and office) built to French Street frontage, with original entrances, windows and detailing. Red brick construction, timber windows, central timber framework and windows. Symmetrical treatment of façade, with strong vertical divisions of brick façade surmounted by projecting brick cornice, and divided into ... Continue Reading »

This is a severely utilitarian, or industrial, four-storey building, designed to admit maximum light through its metal framed and mullioned north-facing windows. The building is of red brick with a simple parapet that conceals the roof and a nameplate high up on the main elevation. The alternately bevel-set and right-angle ... Continue Reading »

The Adelaide Cordial Factory building was erected in 1877 for the manufacturers and importers Stephen & Company. The business was begun in early 1877 by M Stephens and JS Solomon, and was one of several such manufactories established in Adelaide. Under Joseph Clare (formerly of Hall & Sons, Norwood) the ... Continue Reading »

This building, described in 1869, the year of its erection, as a suite of offices: was put up for G. W. Cotton, a lessee of the Corporation of the City of Adelaide to which the land belongs. The architects were Garlick & McMinn and the builders Crocker & Lawson. The ... Continue Reading »

Originally Brookman Buildings was a three-storied building; the oriel window projecting one story higher formed a small tower prominent in the streetscapes of Grenfell Street. This stage of the building was begun in 1896, probably to the design of Alfred Wells. In 1914, the top two floors were added. The ... Continue Reading »

The War Widow's Fund Building was demolished 1982-83 and replaced with City Cross, Grenfell Street, built 1983-1985.

This house was built in 1867 for W.T. Cooper who lived there until 1885. In 1969, when it had become known as Bar Chambers and used as offices, Morgan and Gilbert describe is as 'an example of a well-mannered conversion of a mid-Victorian house to another use.' It continues to be used ... Continue Reading »

This block of houses, in which the austerity of the design is relieved by the cast-iron window balconettes, was built in 1861 for James Dimsdale. They are now used as legal offices

This was built in 1881 for W. & H. Bickford, wholesale druggists, whose business was conducted here. Architecturally it is one of the few example in Adelaide of a building of its period erected for a great business to combine an office and warehouse. The site is part of the ... Continue Reading »

This building is of historical significance because of its association with the South Australian Brewing Company for which it was built in 1940-41 as the administrative headquarters. They were sited near the now demolished West End  brewery which moved to Southwark in 1980.The building is architecturally significant as a design ... Continue Reading »