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National Trust Register
The National Trust of Australia (NSW) maintains a Register of landscapes, townscapes, buildings, industrial sites, cemeteries and other items or places which the Trust determines have cultural significance and are worthy of conservation.
While the Trust Register has no legal force, it has many active purposes for many people. A Trust classification is regarded as an authoritative statement on the heritage significance of a place.
The purpose of the Register is to alert responsible authorities, property owners and the public to the heritage significance of a place. Classification by the Trust and the information contained on the classification card may assist in the decision making process and ultimately the conservation of places and items.
The Trust Register serves as an independent early warning to identify places that are important and that could be under threat.
Latest additions to the Trust Register
Harry Sielder Houses, Kurnell
The six houses at the former Australian Oil Refinery, Kurnell, are seminal early works of the distinguished Modernist architect Harry Seidler (1923-2006).
They are a rare example in his oeuvre of low-scale grouped housing.
The group displays Seidler’s interest in buildings of simple plan and flat-roofed form using large areas of glass and a limited palette of materials to create spatial continuity between interior and exterior spaces. Variety and visual interest are created by inflecting the plan and positioning of garages. These early modern houses would have been considered daring and futuristic in 1955 but they perfectly reflect the spirit of their time, all the more so given their close association with that quintessentially 20th century industry: an oil refinery.
Tarpaulin Factory, Enfield
The Tarpaulin Factory is historically significant for being formed from buildings formerly located at the former Sydney Yards, prior to the decentralisation of goods traffic away from the centre of the city, and is evidence of the expansion of the NSW Government Railways at the end of the 19th century.
It is also significant as a major surviving example of local iron manufacturing in Sydney in the late nineteenth century.
The cast and wrought iron structure is a rare surviving example of this building technology.
Glenleigh Old Homestead, Gooloogong
The group of original buildings of the Glenleigh homestead is a rare surviving group of mid-nineteenth
century timber buildings with corrugated iron roofs that record and represent a typical
early settler farming homestead in the region.
The buildings are intact and in fair condition, though
unoccupied now, and exhibit a rough rustic charm.
The homestead group includes a later brick
homestead that provides evidence of the evolution of the farm from its early years to a position of
prosperity in the early twentieth century.
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