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69329

Former Common School

Y.M.C.A.

High Street,, ARARAT VIC 3377 - Property No B2118

Y.M.C.A., originally Common School, was erected in 1876 to the designs of Elijah Derrick for the Common School committee. Single storied and symmetrical in plan, the brick school has projecting end wings with separate porches and a central gable and bell-cote with porch below. Roofs are in corrugated iron and buttresses, string courses, triple window motifs, hood mouldings, chimneys and deep mullions are features. Y.M.C.A. is a rare surviving example of a Common School, is ... more

B2118

Local
 

Former Common School

Cnr Stevenson Road, GREAT WESTERN VIC 3377 - Property No B5487

B5487

File only
69591

Former Common School No 795

Strathallan Road, ROCHESTER VIC 3561 - Property No B2985

A simply designed but attractive school building of 1874 with a pleasing timber verandah. Originally shingle roofed (shingles still under iron). Classified: 08/06/1972

B2985

Regional
 

Former Common School

State School 754

324 Main Street,, BAIRNSDALE VIC 3875 - Property No B4988

A state school principally of 1889 (though incorporating a common school of 1868) with picturesque features characteristic of the Education Department architect Henry Bastow, including pyramidal bellcast profile roofs, ornamental window heads (here perserved, whereas most shcools have had their windows enlarged), and a stepped tower with steeple and lucarnes which relates partly to schools like those at Daylesford and at Brighton Road, St Kilda, and ultimately to sources like T R ... more

B4988

Regional
70318

Former Common School No. 821

Brown Plains Anglican Chapel

Old Howlong Road,, BROWNS PLAINS VIC 3685 - Property No B6889

Browns Plains Chapel (former Common School No 821) built in 1866 is locally significant historically as a rare example of a former Common School leased, but never owned by the Education Department surviving apparently intact. Its plan dimensions are unique and its porch location a rare example of Board standard no 11. Its use of granite is also rare and a significant use of a local material. The unusual form of the ceiling is assumed to be a structural failure. Classified: ... more

B6889

Local
99342

Former Common School -No 115

1141 Three Chain Road, COBAW VIC 3442 - Property No B1405

Former Carlsruhe Common School 115 built in 1871. Architect Jamison. Bluestone and lighter stone quoins.The school replaced an earlier one, destroyed by fires. A time capsule was buried under the foundation stone. The school operated until untio 1935, reopened in 1947 and finally closed in 1952. It was also used as a social centre for the district and for many years the Anglican church held its services in the building. First classified: 19/5/1966 Revised ... more

B1405

Local
70567

Former Common School No 1124

Mucklefield-Yapeen Road,, MUCKLEFORD SOUTH VIC 3462 - Property No B1801

AHC CITATION Old School House is a stone school erected in 1871 as the South Muckleford State School No 1124. Rectangular in plan the structure is constructed in random course masonry with brick quoins, window and door surrounds. There is a gabled porch non-axially located. The gabled roofs are clad in corrugated iron and there is a finial. A chimnmey, roundel, plinth and multi-pane sashes are other features. Old School House, Muckleford South, is a fairly typical building ... more

B1801

State
70793

Former Common School

Koroit State School No 618 ,  Tower Hill Lake State School No 618

Victoria Park,, KOROIT VIC 3282 - Property No B4554

Built in 1857 with David Burston the first headmaster and originally known as Tower Hill Lake State School No. 618, this substantial single storey building became the Koroit State School 618 in 1873. When a new and larger State School was built in 1878, the building had a variety of occupants including the police and Koroit Town Council. Built of local sandstone on a bluestone base, the unusual "H" shaped plan included the teacher's residence in the central portion. Classified: ... more

B4554

Demolished
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