The Colonial Mutual Life Building is a heritage-listed insurance office at Clifford Street,

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, Australia. It is also known as the CML Building. It was added to the

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on 2 April 1999.

History

It was designed by Hennessy, Hennessy & Co. and built by Concrete Constructions Ltd. The design was for a two-storey building, built in brick and reinforced concrete, featuring a large shop on the corner of Auburn and Clifford Streets with access to the banking chamber and professional offices on the remainder of the ground floor, with further offices and a dental suite on the first floor and a clock tower at the corner of the building. In addition to the Colonial Mutual Life offices, it also included a branch of the

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. The work was described as a "reconstruction" of the former

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premises which had previously occupied the site. The Colonial Mutual Life office operated out of the building until it closed in 1979. In 2017, the building received $35,000 in heritage funding for patching and repainting of the building's exterior and a disability access upgrade.

Description

The building has been described as being in the Spanish mission style.

Heritage listing

The CML Building was listed on the

on 2 April 1999.

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