MARONG PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.400

The bichrome brick school building, built c. 1870s, located in the south-east of the site is a small single-room school building with gable ends and a gabled porch, steeply pitched roof form, prominent plain barge-boards with exposed purlins and timber finial. The brick has bichrome colouration in red and cream, with the cream used in courses and to delineate quoins at corners and around some openings. There is a brick bay to the east, with a large double hung sash window with nine panes per sash. This wing has a weatherboard extension with a half-hip roof. The large window by the porch in the south elevation has been enlarged, a change which may have occurred later in the nineteenth century or as part of the improvements of 1912. 

The bichrome brick school building (built c. 1870s) at the Marong School no.400 is of local historical, social and aesthetic/architectural significance. 

The bichrome brick school building is historically significant (Criterion A) as the earliest surviving component of Marong Primary School. The school was originally established in 1859, on the present site at a bend in the Bullock Creek in close proximity to the town reserve. It has been the principal focus of State funded education at Marong since its inception. The building was also constructed in a period, between the 1860s and '80s, when the township of Marong was experiencing significant growth and development. 

The 1870s building also has social significance as a long-standing building within the school complex, which has served the local school community at Marong for 140 years (Criterion G). 

It is also of aesthetic/architectural significance (Criterion E). Although small in size, the brick building has picturesque qualities deriving from its steeply pitched roof form, gable ends and gabled porch. Other elements of note include the asymmetrical cottage-Italianate form, the prominent plain barge-boards with exposed purlins and finials, and the stepped or tapering cream brick quoining.