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Name	Detail	File number	Level
W Class Trams MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B6907	Melbourne has long been a place characterised by its trams. Essentially the image is of W Series trams - the 305 operating and servicable trams of Classes W - W7, built 1923-1956. Of timber framed superstructure and fine joinery, with dropped centre design and saloons at both ends, the trams are a distinctly Australasian development. Operating through the central city and developed to facilitate suburban expansion in the post World War One era, these robust trams are the ... more	B6907	State
Former St John's Church of England St John's Anglican Church 1 Burgundy Street,, HEIDELBERG VIC 3084 - Property No B0510	One of Melbourne's earliest churches, erected in 1849-51 to the design of John Gill, with contemporary accounts commenting on the picturesque character of the building and its siting. In 1858, under architects Purchas & Sawyer, the parapets and roof were rebuilt and the brickwork stuccoed, giving the church its present character. The front porch and side chapel date from 1963-5. Classified: 'Regional' 08/12/1977 Revised: 03/08/1998 See also B5849 St John the ... more	B0510	State
Pioneer Cemetery Cnr Hawdon Street & St James Road, HEIDELBERG VIC 3084 - Property No B3164		B3164	File only
Goldsborough Mort & Co Ltd 514 - 526 Bourke Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B0106	Probably the finest of the large woolstore/warehouse buildings left in Melbourne. Construction began in 1861 & finished in 1862. Back section completed at a later date. It was important that an example of iron post and beam construction of this type should be preserved. Particular note is made of the ashlar bluestone masonry and prominently rusticated base and arches. The detail of the parapet panel bearing the Company's name is of particular note; the chimneys rising from ... more	B0106	State
Former Austin Hospital for Incurables Complex Austin Hospital Complex 145 - 163 Studley Road,, HEIDELBERG VIC 3084 - Property No B5645	The former Austin Hospital for Incurables Complex, Studley Road, Heidelberg, was founded in 1882. Contributory elements include the Davies Building of 1889-90 and mature Washingtonia robusta palm tree, the former Gate Lodge of 1892 and 1906-7, the Bowen Centre of 1897 and adjoining mature ficus tree, the former Marian Drummond Nurses' Home of 1913-14, Zeltner Hall of 1917 and two mature plane trees, the former Edward Wilson Nurses' Home of 1925, and the mature oak ... more	B5645	Regional
Chronic Wards - Mont Park Asylum Waiora Road,, MACLEOD VIC 3085 - Property No B6937	The Chronic Block at Mont Park Hospital, erected in 1915-17 to the design of Public Works Department architects, probably principally S. Brittingham, is architecturally and historically significant at the State level. In historical terms, it is one of the two most important asylums in Victoria using Pavilion - style wards, graphically demonstrating changed attitudes to care of the insane at the turn of the century in reaction to the palace-block Lunatic Asylums of the mid 19th ... more	B6937	State
Former ES&A Bank ANZ Bank 279 Bay Street,, BRIGHTON VIC 3186 - Property No B5693		B5693	File only
RMIT Building No.4 Working Mens College Bowen Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4621	Erected in 1891 as an extension to the Working Men's College, this Gothic revival building was designed by architects Oakden, Addison and Kemp. Essentially a workshop, it is very much in the tradition of 19th century industrial architecture to have a gothic form applied over it. It is complementary to RMIT Building No 1 and a fine essay in the Gothic style in its own right. Classified: 06/06/1994	B4621	State
Former St John The Less Church Former Anglican Church 709 Hawthorn Road,, BRIGHTON EAST VIC 3187 - Property No B4820	A simple and anonymous schoolroom building which initially doubled as a church, and is built in the local ferruginous sandstone: it dates from 1850 and is amongst the oldest such structures in the state, and a relic from the pioneering days of Melbourne's oldest satellite settlement. Classified: 12/02/1981 Revised: 10/05/1984 Revisedl: 03/08/1998	B4820	State
Hitching Post - Marine Hotel 215 New Street, BRIGHTON VIC 3186 - Property No B1642	Believed to have been used by poet Adam Lindsay Gordon. Classified; 03/08/1998	B1642	Local

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