Kooreh Soldiers Memorial Hall, 7766 Wimmera Highway, KOOREH

The Kooreh Memorial Hall is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities for an interwar hall building. These qualities include the broad gable roof form, together with the minor open gabled porte cochere at the front. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the stuccoed concrete wall construction, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, four galvanised ventilation stacks, wide eaves, tablets with the names inscribed of the fallen soldiers in the Boer War and the First World War along the longitudinal walls, timber framed windows with highlights, double three panelled timber entrance doors, stuccoed concrete porte cochere columns and solid balustrade, stuccoed concrete buttresses, decorative timber fretwork and flagpole in the main flying gable end, timber bargeboards and the timber gable infill in the porte cochere. Internally, the spatial layout of the main hall with two rear ante-rooms, hall stage and the smooth finished concrete walls also contribute to the significance of the place.

The Kooreh Memorial Hall is historically and socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of Kooreh in the early 20th century, and commemorates the fallen soldiers in the Boer and First World Wars. Built in 1923, the hall has served the community for a variety of purposes throughout the 20th century. It is therefore recognised and valued by the Kooreh community for cultural, commemorative and recreational reasons.

Overall, the Kooreh Memorial Hall is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Community Facilities

Category

Hall Public