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1ST MOONEE PONDS SCOUT HALL
Location79 CLARINDA ROAD, MOONEE PONDS, MOONEE VALLEY CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
How is it significant? It is of potential historic significance to the State of Victoria.
Why is it significant?
The 1st Moonee Ponds Scout Hall, constructed in 1925 and the 1930
additions, at 79 Clarinda Road, Moonee Ponds, is significant. It is a
gable-fronted timber hall with a projecting gabled porch. The walls
are clad in weatherboards and there is half-timbering detail to the
main gable. There are double-hung six pane sash windows on either side
of the porch, which has a pair of timber doors. The side elevations
have high-set four pane fixed windows in groups of three, and single
timber doors. The roof retains round metal ventilators along ridge and
there is a brick chimney. At the rear is skillion-roof section, and on
the east side is the skillion wing added in 1930, which has
double-hung six pane sash timbers and a timber door. There is a small
gabled timber outbuilding at the rear.
The 1st Moonee Ponds Scout Hall is of local historic and social
significance to the City of Moonee Valley.
It is significant for its long and continuing associations with
the Boy Scout movement in the City of Moonee Valley as the oldest
purpose-built scout hall in the City of Moonee Valley and one of the
oldest in Victoria. The scouting movement played an important role in
the lives of adolescent boys in the twentieth century and this hall
demonstrates the formative period after World War I when the scouting
movement had become established and troops began to create permanent
places to meet. The hall is of architectural significance as an intact
representative example of the scout halls erected in the 1920s in
Victoria. (Criteria A, D & G)
Group
Community Facilities
Category
Hall Girl Guide/ Scout