George Weston and Sons Workshop (former)

This building was constructed circa 1914 for George Weston & Sons, a firm of metal merchants, coppersmiths, brass-founders and metal finishers. The firm had first established itself in Mary Street in 1909. The Weston & Sons brick workshop was one of a number of masonry buildings that were constructed in Charlotte Street during the first few decades of the twentieth century. These masonry buildings replaced earlier nineteenth century timber residences and business premises and thus marked Charlotte Street’s transformation from a residential precinct to a light industrial precinct. The George Weston & Sons workshop continued to operate from this Charlotte Street for 80 years and this is a rare surviving example of a small-scale brick workshop in the Central Business District (CBD).