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Shire of Lillydale Offices (fmr)

Location 35-37 Castella Street Lilydale, YARRA RANGES SHIRE File Number 709 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/1] Former Shire Offices

Statement of Significance

The oldest Shire Offices in the region. They have played a vital role in the development of the Lillydale municipality and are of an interesting design, typical of Victoria's more elaborate public buildings of the 1880's. (Tansley, 1978)
Typically boom style in design, the offices are also fairly typically planned and detailed and are a representative example of reasonably modest shire offices of the period. The design is also somewhat conservative in detailing. (RNE, 005701)
Lilydale Shire Offices and Council Chamber of 1889 in rendered brick work of neo-classical detail with a rusticated ground floor and on the upper floor elaborate pilasters and window pediments surmounted by a central arched feature, (the later single storey additions are excluded). (National Trust citation as quoted by Tansley, 1978)