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NATIONAL SCHOOL NO.32 (FORMER)
Location2 BRIDGEWATER FIRE STATION ROAD, CAPE BRIDGEWATER, GLENELG SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From The Portland Urban Conservation Study: The ruins of the former National School at Cape Bridgewater are one of the few surviving remnants of the Cape Bridgewater settlement. The School was erected in 1875.
The former National School No. 32 of Bridgewater is located on the north-west corner of Bridgewater Lakes Road and Fire Station Road at Lower Bridgewater. The school is a single-storey rendered stone building of two rooms in a T-shaped plan, thought to date from as early as 1857. The windows appear to have been modified and now have 24 small panes set in three sashes, the top moving as a hopper sash. The roof has been re-clad in Colorbond, and two patent ventilators have been introduced about 1900. The building is suffering from rising damp and has had some inappropriate cement repairs to the render.
How is it significant?
The former National School No. 32 is of historical, social and architectural significance to Glenelg Shire and the State of Victoria
Why is it significant?
The former National School No. 32 is of historic significance as the expression of the Lower Bridgewater community's struggle for education, and for its association with 100 years of schooling in the area. It is of social significance as the focus for the community. The school is of architectural significance for it use of traditional forms, fine construction techniques and for its use of local materials.
Group
Education
Category
School - State (public)