The Australian Sugar Company Mill

This block of apartments was initially built as a sugar mill. The Sydney Morning Herald in its October 1841 edition states, "The Sugar House has six spacious floors, mill house, engine house, boiler house and store rooms, all heated and worked with a steam engine of considerable power. It drives a mill of great capacity for grinding animal charcoal.
The Sugar Works have given employment to above a hundred men during its construction.
The manager has a valuable plant, an all the mechanics to work it and placed it and them in a township formerly know as Canterbury Bush."

The sugar mill was the first major industry in the area and is located on Cooks River. It was used briefly to produce molasses and spirits. Whilst the mill was very efficient it ceased operation thirteen years later in August 1854 due to transport difficulties and problems finding labour as men headed off in search of gold. More history can be found here.

The mill was converted into apartments around ten years ago.