The Collar Factory

The Collar Factory is a shirt and collar factory built around the 1890s, likely designed by A. B. Cottam. The building is constructed of red brick with concrete dressings and features a slate roof with parapeted gable ends.

It is a long, three-storey structure with 12 bays, and a three-bay wing on the southeast side, which includes a later single-storey outshut in the angle. The design reflects the Late Victorian Renaissance style.

The exterior has three storeys, with the northeast and southwest gable ends featuring three bays, giant brick pilaster buttresses topped with scroll pediment caps, and three-light wooden window frames. The second-floor windows have round-arch heads and glazing bars, with a stringcourse rising over as a hoodmould. The gables are adorned with small pedimented apexes and moulded coping. The northwest and southeast side elevations have large three-light wooden frame windows set between pilaster buttresses that support deep eaves. On the southeast side, bay six includes taking-in doors on each floor, and the left side has a three-bay wing with a two-bay gable end and a lift tower in the angle. A slender brick chimney stack is located on the third buttress from the left end on the southeast side, alongside the later single-storey outshut.

The interior has been altered but originally included the manager's and clerks' offices, a cutting room, a washing and starching room, and an engine room on the ground floor. The first floor was designated for machining and turning, while the second floor was used for ironing and polishing.

The St Augustine Street Shirt and Collar Factory was built for the Tone Vale Manufacturing Company, owned by Henry J. Van Trump. It is an example of a late Victorian textile factory with notable architectural features, producing a specific product for the local industry.