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Hampton Park Primary School No. 4062

Other Name

Hampton Park State School No. 4062

Location

32 Somerville Road,HAMPTON PARK, Casey City

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Hampton Park Primary School, designed by the Public Works Department and constructed in 1922 and associated mature trees, at Somerville Road, Hampton Park.

How is it significant?
The Hampton Park Primary School is of local historic, social and aesthetic significance to the City of Casey.

Why is it significant?
Historically, the Hampton Park Primary School demonstrates the early development of Hampton Park as a result of closer settlement during the interwar years, and is now one of the few public or private buildings to survive from this early period of development in this area. It demonstrates how one-room schools were provided to serve small communities prior to improvements in road transport that allowed the consolidation of larger schools on central sites. (AHC A4, B2 & D2)

Socially, the Hampton Park Primary School is significant for the strong associations with the local community by its continuous use as a school over an 80 year period. (AHC criterion G1)

Aesthetically, the Hampton Park Primary School is significant as a representative example of an interwar one-room weatherboard school that is a local landmark within the area. The mature trees provide an appopriate related setting. (AHC criteria E1)

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