HALLSTON STATE SCHOOL NO.2825 (FORMER)

The former Hallston State School No. 2825, at 2640 Grand Ridge Road, Hallston, designed by the Public Works Department and built in 1922, is significant. This is a gable-fronted one-room timber school clad in weatherboards with a recessed entry porch at the northeast corner. It has a trellis vent in the gable end and simple triangular eaves brackets, a bank of double hung and hopper windows in the south elevation, another tall multi-paned window within the porch and a small square six-pane window in the front elevation. There is a brick chimney against the west wall. The small gabled weatherboard building at the rear is believed to be the former school shelter shed. 
Non-original alterations and additions, and other buildings are not significant.

The former Hallston State School No. 2825 is of local historic and representative significance to the South Gippsland Shire.

Historically, it is associated with the development of Hallston in the early twentieth century and after World War I, when closer settlement resulted in the need for a permanent school to serve the district. The school and the adjacent Hallston Public Hall provide tangible evidence of what was the community centre of the Hallston district. (Criterion A)
It is a representative example of the standard interwar school design that was first used at Bena State School No. 3062 in 1921. The most distinguishing feature is the recessed side porch, which was a departure from the projecting gabled porches of earlier examples and demonstrates the continuing development of one-room school design during the interwar period. Of the surviving examples in the Shire this is most intact example, and it is complemented by an early shelter shed. (Criterion D)