Stawell Secondary College, (Former State School No. 1986), 79-97 Patrick Street, STAWELL

The Stawell Secondary College, Wonga Campus, building, Patrick Street, is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a High Victorian Eclectic Gothic style. These qualities include the gable roof form that traverses the site, together with two flanking gables that project at the front and rear, a castellated tower and a minor gabled porch that also project towards the street frontage. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical composition, single storey height, rendered and unpainted brick chimneys with projecting cornice cappings, modest eaves, coursed granite base walls, cream brickwork forming horizontal bands, quoinwork, pointed arched window voussoirs and voussoirs framing the oculus ventilators in the main gable ends, large timber finials in the main gable ends, trefoil motif in the minor porch gable end, timber framed double hung multi paned windows, pointed windows and ventilation openings, together with blind pointed arches of the tower, stuccoed label moulds to the pointed arches of the windows, brick buttresses with stuccoed copings, stuccoed tablet on the main facade and the stuccoed castellated parapet to the tower.

The Stawell Secondary College, Wonga Campus, building, Patrick Street, is historically significant at a LOCAL level. The building is associated with primary education in Stawell from 1878 until 1911 and secondary education from 1912.

The Stawell Secondary College, Wonga Campus, building, Patrick Street, is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and highly valued by the Stawell community for educational reasons.

Overall, the Stawell Secondary College, Wonga Campus, building, Patrick Street, is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Education

Category

School - State (public)