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LOCH PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 2912

Location

VICTORIA ROAD, LOCH, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
Loch State School No. 2912, comprising the buildings constructed between 1892 and 1926, at Victoria Road, Loch.

Why is it significant?
Loch State School No. 2912 is of local historic, aesthetic and social significance to South Gippsland Shire.

Historically, it is the oldest extant school building in the Shire and demonstrates the early development of educational facilties. The later buildings illustrate the rapid development that occurred in Loch following the opening of the South Eastern Railway in 1890. (AHC criteria - A.4 and D.2)

Aesthetically, it is of interest as a combination of three single room classrooms added at intervals as the attendance increased. Although these are of distinctly different periods and slightly different sizes, the consistency of design for the Education Department is apparent. (AHC criterion - E.1) Socially, the school has played an important role in the development of the Loch community. (AHC criterion - G.1)

Group

Education

Category

School - State (public)