Rosanna Metropolitan Fire Brigade Station

The former Rosanna Fire Station at 230 Lower Plenty Road, designed by Percy Everett and built in 1953, is significant.

How is it significant?

The former Rosanna Fire Station is of historical, social and aesthetic significance to Banyule City.

Why is it significant?

The former fire station at Rosanna is a late work by the renowned Government Architect Percy Everett (1934-1953). (Criteria A & H)

Under the leadership of Everett, the Public Works Department assumed a high profile and completed a large number of innovative, modern and stylish buildings for courts, police, schools and technical colleges. Rosanna Fire Station is an excellent example of the work of Everett. The corner site and separate parts of the building under low pitched roofs provides an interesting composition, which is still highly intact. (Criterion E)

The building has some social significance as a fire station for over thirty years before adapting to a new community use as a neighbourhood house. (Criterion G)

Group

Utilities - Fire Control

Category

Fire Station