Redan State School No. 1289

Redan State School No. 1289 at 32-48 Hertford Street, to the extent of its 1873-4 fabric. The bichrome brick building is H-shaped in plan, comprising a long central section flanked by four projecting gabled wings. The facade, which addresses Alfred Street, features striking jerkin-head gables with decorative bargeboards and finials, louvered circular vents and a small central projecting rooflet sheltering the school bell, also with a finial. Windows have an unusually shaped flat-arch lintel of cream brick with a red brick keystone at the top, while the sills are basalt (overpainted). The lintels and sills are in line with horizontal cream-brick bands. The north and south elevations each have a central 'dormers' continuous with the wall, beneath a small gable with decorative bargeboard. The rear elevation is much simpler in its details.

The Jubilee Gates, to the extent of their 1934 fabric. 

Mature trees of significance include a Chamaecyparis lawsoniana (Lawson's Cypress) planted to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and mature Ash trees that line the entrance path. 

The Redan State School No. 1289 is of historic, social, aesthetic and architectural significance to the City of Ballarat.

The Redan State School No. 1289 is of historical significance as representation of the dramatic population increase in the Redan area (Sebastopol south and west) in the late nineteenth century. The school was built to cater for the children of mine workers, and is evidence of the concentration of deep lead mines established in the area, and the mining families who followed the work in the mines. (Criterion A)

Redan State School No. 1289 is of social significance as the permanent site for the provision of free, compulsory and secular education under the Victorian Education Act 1874. The role of the school as a focus for community life and commemoration is reflected in the erection of memorial gates by the Redan Old Scholars' Association in 1934 and commemorative planting within the school yard. (Criterion G)

Redan State School No. 1289, to the extent of the 1874 fabric is of architectural significance as a surviving example of a state school constructed to a Department of Education standard design in the late 19th century. It is of aesthetic significance for decorative details such as polychrome brick, jerkin-head gables with decorative bargeboards and a bell tower at the centre of the facade. Its large size and level of architectural pretension reflect the prosperity of Redan during the mining era (Criteria D & E)