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Warracknabeal Town Hall

Location 36 Scott Street,, WARRACKNABEAL VIC 3393 - Property No B7015 File Number B7015 Level State

[1/1] B7015 Warracknabeal Town Hall

Statement of Significance

The Warracknabeal Town hall, designed by noted early modernist architects Seabrook Fildes, and completed in 1940, is of State architectural and social significance.
Architecturally, the Town Hall is a stylish early modern design, employing simple boldly modelled cream brick volumes, cut by deep-set vertical slot windows, accentuated by a slim clocktower on the corner, contrasted with a vertical section of dark tiles. The design is clearly inspired by the early Dutch modernists such as Willem Dudock, particularly his Hilversum Town Hall, and is comparable to other similarly inspired works in Victoria, notably the MacRobetson Girls High School, 1934 by the same architects, and the Heidelberg Town Hall, opened 1937, by Leith, Bartlett, Peck & Kemter.
Socially, the town Hall is important as the focus of the town community for most of its life. It was built and operated as the major cinema in town form the opening of the hall in 1940.
Classified: 07/08/2000