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Former Stawell Grammar School, 54-56 Smith Street, STAWELL
Location54-56 Smith Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The former Stawell Grammar School building at 54-56 Smith Street, Stawell, has significance for its associations with the Stawell Grammar School established in 1869 and which closed in c.1912. Designed by Robert Alexander Love, architect, the building was constructed as the school room in 1869-70 for the owner and headmaster, R.S. Bradley. The building also represents an intact example of a rudimentary Victorian style, and is in fair condition.
The former Stawell Grammar School building at 54-56 Smith Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a rudimentary Victorian style.These qualities include the steeply pitched gable roof form, face brick wall construction, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, and the stepped brick parapets that terminate at the apex in unusual point forms, the lower reaches having projecting brick pinnacles with pedimented cappings. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the single storey height, round-arched door opening on the Smith Street facade (including the vertically boarded double timber doors), side flat-arched single door opening (with an altered four panelled timber door), three window openings on the east facade, and the rough-hewn Stawell stone base. The visual connections to the original school residence also contribute to the significance of the place.
The former Stawell Grammar School building at 54-56 Smith Street is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of the Stawell Grammar School after its construction in 1869-70, and particularly with R.S. Bradley, original owner and headmaster of the Grammar School from 1869. The building served as the Grammar School until 1896. It also has associations with Richard B. Chater, headmaster from 1879, and with the architect, Robert Alexander Love.
The former Stawell Grammar School building at 54-56 Smith Street is scientifically significant at a LOCAL level. The cavity brick wall construction represents an early example of this form of building employed by the architect R.A. Love in the late 1860s and 1870s.
The former Stawell Grammar School building at 54-56 Smith Street is socially significant at a LOCAL level. Although no longer serving as a school, it is still recognised by members of the Stawell community for its past purpose as an important educational institution.
Overall, the former Stawell Grammar School building at 54-56 Smith Street is of LOCAL significance.
Group
Education
Category
School - Private