Former National Bank

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The Drysdale Branch of the Colonial Bank of Australiasia was erected in 1880 at the intersection of five main roads into the township. This Conservation Classical revival building, designed by Warrnambool Architect George Jobbins, is characteristic of bank architecture of the 1860-1880 era in Victoria and typical of the work Jobbins, the architect, for many of the Colonial banks in Victoria. Similar buildings were erected at Burregurra and Whinchelsea.

RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES

Geelong Regional Commission Register.

REFERENCES

National Trust of Australia (Victoria) File 410.

Geelong Advertiser - 31st March, 188-, tender notice. 30 July, 1880, approaching completion.

Sutherland, Alexander - Victoria and Its Metropolis, Pas and Present - McCarron, Bird & Co, Melbourne, 1888, Vol 2, p.35.

George Jobbins, partner in firm Jobbins and McLeod, offices in Melbourne and Warrnambool.

Threhowan, Bruce - 'Banks in Victoria 1851-1939' - A study of Historic Buildings Preservation Council 1976.

Group

Commercial

Category

Bank