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Former Court House - Group Classification

Location 28 Shaw Street,, MORTLAKE VIC 3272 - Property No B2275 File Number B2275 Level Local

[1/1] B2275 COURT HOUSE, MORTLAKE

Statement of Significance

Individual Statement of Significance: A simple bluestone court house of 1864 without the two customary flanking wings and with simple skillion-roofed entry porch.
Court House Classified: 'Local' 20/08/1969

Group Statement of Significance: A distinguished group of three small civic buildings, now abandoned, consisting of Court House, Shire Offices and Post Office, built between 1864 and 1880.
Construction is of basalt ashlar with the dominant, centrally placed, Court House in the formal plumb bond and the flanking buildings in random work. Roofs are gabled and slated with plain timber barges and trim. Verandahs are of corrugated sheeting with timber posts and framing except for the Shire Offices which, unusually for such a building, has cast iron verandah posts (of a modern Gothic design used elsewhere in the works of Davidson and Henderson) with a decorative cast iron valance.
Set together on the edge of rising ground, the group once dominated the township but is now itself overshadowed by street trees and recent building. Other than for the adaptation of the Post Office to serve as a house the buildings which make up the group are intact.
Group Classification: 'Regional' 19/05/1983

Part of Mortlake Historic Area
See also B4286 Shire Office & B5373 Post Office.