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Glenroy Primary School No. 3118

Other Name Glenroy State School No. 3118 Location 54 Wheatsheaf Road, Glenroy VIC 3046 - Property No 53176 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Glenroy Primary School (No. 3118), comprising the original 1927 red brick school building, rotunda (c.1927) and mature remnant trees, located in Wheatsheaf Road, Glenroy.

How is it significant?
The Glenroy Primary School (No. 3118) is of local historic significance to the City of Moreland and is an intact representative example of its typology.

Why is it significant?
The School is of historic significance, for its provision of primary-level education in the Glenroy area on the same site for nearly one hundred years. (AHC Criterion A.4)

The School is representative of its type with an intactness portrayed through its retention of a largely intact inter-war primary school building, with a contemporary timber shelter shed, and a number of mature remnant trees including two sugar gums and a number of peppercorns trees. (AHC Criterion D.2)