page_title: Argyle Stores
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Argyle Stores / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: The Argyle, the Rocks, Sydney
context_page_description: The Argyle Stores is a heritage-listed former custom house and bond store that now serves as offices, bar, function rooms and restaurant located at 12-20 Argyle Street in the inner city Sydney suburb of The Rocks in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia. The east wing was designed by Henry Cooper; and the designer of all other wingers in not known. The Argyle Stores were built from 1826 to 1878. It is also known as Argyle Bond Stores and Cleland Bond Store. The property is owned by Property NSW, an agency of the Government of New South Wales. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 10 May 2002.
context_section_description: The original building on the site was a simple Georgian sandstone building roofed with slates, the first use of this roofing material in the colony. The numerous brick Victorian additions were made in the 19th century during various ownerships. Under the buildings solid sandstone cellars are covered by massive hand hewn timber beams whilst upper floors are in heavy timber post and beam construction. The roofs are simple hipped forms, now sheeted with corrugated iron. The courtyard is entered via passageways whose entrances are surrounded by articulated sandstone arches and quoins whilst the brick walls and pilasters to the streets are stuccoed.
  The building contains a hydraulic hoist, an important item located within the building. Completed in various stages, the Argyle Stores shows elements of Colonial Georgian, Victorian Warehouse, and Art Nouveau Chicago architectural styles. The building has 3,4 storeys plus basement with a stone façade, timber floor and roof frames, with galvanised iron roof cladding. Despite numerous alterations, the buildings retain much of the fabric of their major phases of development and use as commercial stores.
caption: The former Argyle Stores
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