Former John Taylor Woolstore (1893)

The building was originally owned by John Taylor, a successful pastoralist.
The building was designed by Arthur Blacket, son of Edmund Blacket, Colonial Architect from 1849-1854. It was designed in the Federation Warehouse style which was a complete departure of the ornamental High Victorian wools stores of the previous decade.


The five storey wool store was the first of the Pyrmont wool stores to use recessed brick arches on the facades. At ground and first floor levels there are two storey high recessed semi-circular arched panels, each containing a central semi-circular arched window on each level. The second floor contrasts this with flush brickwork but similar windows, whilst the top level has recessed arched panels to each window. Lintels and archivolts are of contrast colour bricks and the facade is curved around the Pyrmont Street/Pyrmont Bridge Road corner, which also features the name John Taylor and Company and the date 1893 painted on it and the latter with a moulded stucco sheep emblem. Now this building is converted to a hotel called “The Woolstore 1888 by Ovolo”.