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WARRACKNABEAL POST OFFICE

Location 107 SCOTT STREET WARRACKNABEAL, YARRIAMBIACK SHIRE File Number 608338 Level Registered

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Warracknabeal Post Office was constructed in1906-07 to the design of the Victorian Public Works Department architect Samuel Bindley. The two storeyed building is constructed in the English Domestic Revival style and features face brickwork to the ground floor level and half timbering to the upper storey. The elaborately ornamented exterior features heavily ribbed chimneys. The postmaster's quarters which, with four large bedrooms, an elegant drawing room, living room, dining room and kitchen, is one of the grandest postal residences in Victoria. The postal chamber is by comparison quite modest and has been extensively altered over the years although it has retained its pressed metal ceiling. An addition to the south was made in 1912-13 to house the telegraph office.

How is it significant?
The Warracknabeal Post Office is of architectural significance to the State of Victoria.

Why is it significant?
The Warracknabeal Post Office is architecturally important as a successful example of the English Domestic Revival style as applied to a public building. It is well crafted and, unusually, its decorative half timbering is carried even into areas which are not immediately visible from the street. It is an important work of the Public Works Department Architect Samuel Bindley. The post office is architecturally significant as a picturesque and imposing element of the Warracknabeal streetscape and is one of the finest public buildings in western Victoria.