Smythes Creek State School No.1504 (former)

The former Smythes Creek State School No. 1504 at 606 Glenelg Highway to the extent of the c1874 fabric and early additions, including a kitchen skillion to the residence section. The building comprises a brick schoolroom with front entrance porch and attached living quarters. The schoolroom has a gabled facade and a gabled porch on the left-hand side of the facade. The door is four-panelled with shallow mouldings. The windows are all six-over-six double-hung sashes, with flat-arched lintels and basalt sills.

Trees which provide an important setting include Pinus radiata (Monterey Pine), Salix caprea (Pussy Willow), Salix matsudana (Tortured Willow) a hedge of Cupressocyparis x leylandii (Leyland Cypress). Also of significance is the domed brick well at the rear of the school house, and remains of an early post and rail fence.

The c1930s fibro-cement extension to the north elevation is not of significance, nor is the large modern brick residence or outbuildings located to the rear of the school. 

The former Smythes Creek State School No. 1504 is of local historic and architectural significance. 

The former Smythes Creek State School is of historical significance as a small rural school established to educate the children of the small Smythes Creek settlement, based on mining and then agricultural pursuits. It is one of the few tangible reminders of the former mining settlement of Smythes Creek. (Criteron A)

The former Smythes Creek State School is of architectural significance as a representative example of a small rural school house with attached living quarters, constructed in 1874 to a Department of Education standard design by builders Lewis and Roberts. (Criterion D)