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Former Police Stables, 38 Longfield Street, STAWELL
Location38 Longfield Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The former Police Stables, 38 Longfield Street, Stawell, forms part of a coherent group of government, civic and community buildings that have significance for their close associations with the foundation of the town. The former Police Stables is a single storey mid Victorian brick outbuilding having a simple gable roof, and was constructed in 1873. Although most of the building is largely intact, there is a substantial punctuation in an end wall. The former Police Stables are architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a rudimentary mid Victorian style. These qualities include the simple gable roof form clad in slate. Other intact qualities include the unpainted brick wall construction, modest eaves, four small early window openings with masonry sills on the longitudinal facades, louvered gable ventilator with masonry sill, unpainted stone base, and the decorative features (three courses of brick voussoirs forming the shallow arches of the window and ventilator openings). The former Police Stables and site are historically significant at a LOCAL level. They are associated with the early development of the Township of Stawell at Pleasant Creek, and particularly with the development of police administration in the Pleasant Creek goldfields, Stawell and the wider Wimmera region from c.1857 until 1993. They form part of a significant government precinct which includes the Police Station and Residence, Lock up, former Stawell courthouse, former Stawell Shire Offices and the Scientific and Literary Institute. Overall, the former Police Stables and site are of LOCAL significance.
Group
Law Enforcement
Category
Police stables