Store Building

The store building at Kandos Cement Works is a low single-storey block sitting away from the main production buildings, walled in face brick with a corrugated iron roof. The brickwork is laid in stretcher bond, with concrete lintels above the windows and door openings. The windows are steel-framed industrial casements, several panes broken. A pair of double doors at one end opens directly onto the yard, sized for a forklift or pallet jack. Inside, the floor is laid in worn red concrete. Steel racking lines both side walls. The roof structure above is bare, the trusses visible from below, the underside of the iron streaked where water has worked in along the ridge line.

Every cement plant of this scale needed a dedicated store, separate from the production buildings, to hold consumables and parts that would otherwise be lost in the dust and movement of the main works. The Kandos store served fitters, electricians, instrumentation technicians, and the maintenance crews who kept the plant running across its 95-year operational life. The works closed in September 2011. The 98 redundancies that followed included most of the people who knew the store from the inside. Some of the higher-value parts were removed in the months after closure; most of the racking, the fittings, and a residue of the inventory have stayed where they were.