Eaglehawk Precinct

Eaglehawk High Street Commercial: Eaglehawk includes many of the built and landform elements typifying the local life of a nineteenth century mining community. Most of the buildings were created in the principal era of reef mining. They cover the range of such buildings which would have normally constituted town centres across the goldfields.

In the case of Eaglehawk the unusual road pattern and the manner in which the Town hall and Mechanics Institute sit within a Y- intersection and as well the slope of the land down towards this reserve when approached from Bendigo give a more forceful expression to the patterns seen in other gold towns. The centre of Eaglehawk with its solid commercial structures, its public buildings, its range of houses and its street patterns faithfully reflects the intimate and energetic life of a mining township.

Eaglehawk High Street Civic: A small precinct, it nevertheless provides the other end to the strong visual link, down High Street, which starts at the town hall. It contains the most architecturally ambitious group of buildings in Eaglehawk and encapsulates the religious, social and educational themes of the community. It also includes those buildings which, by their nature, differ visually from the rest of the precinct both in scale, materials and siting (given greater vacant land areas for each site).

Group

Community Facilities

Category

Other - Community Facilities