AXEDALE POLICE STATION (FORMER) & STABLES

The Former Axedale Police Station of 1892, including all the fabric of timber framed weatherboard house and the stable, is significant.

The Former Axedale Police Station site is of local historic and aesthetic significance for the City of Greater Bendigo.

The Former Axedale Police Station at 33 William Street is of historic significance for its use for police purposes for more than one hundred years. Its use as a Police Station and residence dates from 1866 until its sale as a private residence to the Tyndall family in 1974. The present building is the second police station to occupy the site. Criterion A

Designed in 1892 the former Axedale Police Station is a good example of a late Victorian timber police station. It is relatively intact apart from a complementary extension, and displays a number of architectural features of the period including a projecting gable with strapped gable end, tripartite window with a window hood, large brick dichrome chimneys and a verandah with slender timber posts and timber fretwork brackets. The weatherboard police stables is also significant. Criterion D