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Harkaway Township
LocationHessell Road and King Road HARKAWAY, CASEY CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
Statement of Significance
What is significant?
Harkaway township.
How is it significant?
Harkaway township is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Casey.
Why is it significant?
Historically, Harkaway Township precinct is significant as evidence of its important role as a small service centre for the surrounding early farm settlements. Although it has been subdivided recently into residential allotments, key buildings remain, with significant relationships to one another, demonstrating the role of this small village in providing basic services for a rural community.
Aesthetically, the intersection of King and Harkaway Roads is marked by significant hawthorn hedge plantings, a historic characteristic of many boundary plantings but now becoming rare in the area. Key characteristics of the Harkaway Township precinct which contribute to its heritage significance are:
- The informal streetscape of King Road, east of Harkaway Road, with deep set backs of residential buildings and wide roadside verges with no concrete kerb and guttering, creating a vision of the streetscape as a rural road.
- The low scale or lack of fencing along King Road, lending an informal or semi-rural quality to the streetscape.
- The visual relationship between the Harkaway Primary School and the two old residences opposite, this cluster representing the historical community centre.
- The close proximity of residential development in King Street in relationship to the road boundary, creating a sense of a town centre, which has only recently been consolidated.
- The relationship of the Harkaway Hall to the road and its immediate context of mature plantings, including the drainage reserve to the rear and the natural vegetation in Dalton Reserve opposite.
- The Avenue of Honour on the northern side of King Road, along Harkaway Road, composed of eucalypts and oaks.
On this basis, the following places contribute to the significance of Harkaway Township precinct:
- Avenue of Honour, Harkaway Road
- Harkaway Hall, 56-58 King Road
- Nichol House, 63 King Road
- Harkaway Primary School, 67 King Road
- House (Former Post Office), 68-70 King Road
- Kilfera, 72-92 King Road
- King & Robinson Roads hawthorn hedges
Other landscape features include the Dalton Reserve and Jessie Traill Reserve, both demonstrating a local recognition of the value of natural vegetation.
Group
Urban Area
Category
Mixed Use Precinct