Goldsborough Mort Woolstore, Heritage-listed warehouse in Teneriffe, Australia.
Goldsborough Mort Woolstore is a four-story warehouse made of red brick and timber on Macquarie Street in Teneriffe. The symmetrical front has red brick piers with triple window openings, and a sawtooth roof on top provided natural light that workers needed for sorting wool.
Stuart Brothers from Sydney built this warehouse in 1933 for Goldsbrough Mort & Co, which had bought the land in 1922 when wool prices were favorable. It became the last remaining woolstore of this company in Queensland, marking an important part of the state's industrial past.
The building carries the company name and construction date in a rendered frieze between moulded merino sheep heads, a detail visible on the upper facade. Beeston Street beside it was put through in 1927 and named after Joseph Beeston, long-serving secretary of Dath Henderson & Co. Ltd. The only remaining Goldsbrough Mort woolstore in Queensland, it is now zoned for residential or market retail use.
Inside, you can still see the heavy timber posts and steel ties that created large open spaces, helping visitors understand how work happened back then. The red brick structure is easy to spot from outside and gives a clear sense of the industrial craftsmanship from that era.
The top floor's sawtooth roof spans 30 metres (98 ft) using steel ties and only one central row of steel columns, leaving the sorting floor almost unobstructed. Square vents with timber louvers sit beneath the windows. The roof runs east to west for even light.
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