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PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.461- FORMER BURWOOD SCHOOL

Other Name

BURWOOD COMMON SCHOOL

Location

172 BURWOOD HIGHWAY BURWOOD, WHITEHORSE CITY

File Number

HE/10/3026

Level

Registered

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Statement of Significance

The original brick single room school at Burwood was built in 1865 on Crown Land granted to the Wesleyans in 1855. The classroom was extended in 1883, 1906 and 1935.

The former Burwood Primary School, with the unusual stylistic detail in its Early English gothic paired windows, gable ends and bargeboards, is an extraordinary example of a single room school established under the Common Schools Board of Education between 1862-1872.

The 1883 and 1906 extensions to the original brick classroom demonstrate a changing sequence of architectural styles, patterns of occupancy and function affecting school buildings and education in Victoria.

The stepped floor in the 1906 classroom, designed to achieve better sight lines for pupils in 'object classes', is a rare and important example of past teaching practice and classroom design which, by 1901, was being replaced by flat floors with platforms for teachers.

The site includes a former Protestant Hall (1876, extended 1925) purchased by the Education Department in 1952.

Group

Education