Former Police Lock -up, 54 Newall Street, MARNOO

The former Police Station building, 54 Newall Street, is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the Federation style. These qualities include the recessed hipped roof form, together with gable roofs and bullnosed verandah that project towards the front and side. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the asymmetrical double fronted composition, single storey height, lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, two unpainted red brick chimneys with multi-corbelled tops, narrow eaves, projecting rectangular window bay under the front gable with a bank of timber framed double hung windows at the front and sides, decorative window leadlighting in the upper sashes, tripartite window under the verandah with a timber framed double hung window flanking by narrow sidelights, other timber framed double hung windows, front timber framed doorway with a timber and glazed door with sidelights, the timber verandah columns, timber verandah fretwork valance and brackets, and the decorative gable infill (stucco panelling and timber battening).

The former Police Station building, 54 Newall Street, is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the provision of police services to the community from 1928.

Overall, the former Police Station building, 54 Newall Street, is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Law Enforcement

Category

Police station