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Name	Detail	File number	Level
Former Tramway & Omnibus Company Building 669-675 Bourke Street and 20-38 Godfrey street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B0455	This building was constructed in 1891 as the new office for the privately-owned Melbourne Tramway and Omnibus Company. The company formed in 1868 and was re-constructed as the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Co in 1877 from the Melbourne Omnibus Co which was formed in 1869. It held a monopoly over the running of trams on the inner city's cable tram system from 1885-1916 and the office was constructed at one of the city termini. Designed by architects Twentyman and Askew, it is in a ... more	B0455	State
Former Town Hall Talbot Street, MAJORCA VIC 3465 - Property No B3886	A solid bluestone hall of 1876, with rendered facade of simple classic detail; timber pillars of full width front verandah, timber addition at rear excluded. Classified: 26/08/1976	B3886	Local
Power Generating System & Former Tram Sheds 75 Hargreaves Street &4 Lansell Street,, BENDIGO VIC 3550 - Property No B3633	The overriding importance of the power house is derived from its close proximity to and functional relationship with the Bendigo tramway system. This system is unique at the national level as the only surviving intact operating provincial tramway system in the country. It is of international importance as the home of the Birney Safety car and currently operates the vehicles belonging formerly to such cities as Melbourne, Geelong and Adelaide. As the powerhouse source for this ... more	B3633	Regional
Former Theosophical Society Building 181 - 187 Collins Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B4116	The Theosophical Society Building (1936-37) has a long association with an influential international movement and the clear expression of this society's beliefs in the universality of brotherhood and religious beliefs is expressed in features of its facade. The Australian section of the society was among the largest in the world and in the 1920s-30s the Melbourne lodge was second in Australia only to Sydney in importance. This building is the most impressive and substantial ... more	B4116	Regional
Former Tandarook Cheese Factory Tandarook Estate,, COBDEN VIC 3266 - Property No B6330	The Tandarook Cheese Factory is historically and architecturally significant at a regional level. As the only cheese factory not also making butter or side products Tandarook was remarkably different in nature to other cheese factories in the Western District. Tandarook was also one of the earliest cheese factories in the Western District. The tall severe chimney is a local landmark. The red brick and timber building is pleasantly situated in the rolling green hills of lush dairying ... more	B6330	Regional
Former Town Hall And Court House - Heathcote McIvor Highway,, HEATHCOTE VIC 3523 - Property No B5495		B5495	File only
Former Tara Broughton Hall 2 Berwick Street,, CAMBERWELL VIC 3124 - Property No B0572	Broughton Hall, originally known as Tara, was constructed in c.1880 for Sir John O'Shannassy retired Irish born politician and three times Under-Secretary of State for Victoria. This impressive conservative classical style mansion of unknown architectural origins has a single storey arcaded colonnade with balustraded balcony above extending around a symmetrical central block constructed of stucco rendered brick. Broughton Hall is a noted conservative classical style mansion ... more	B0572	State
Former Timboon Inn Timboon House Old Geelong Road, TIMBOON VIC 3268 - Property No B1401	The old Timboon Inn, strategically located on the original Geelong-Belfast Road, was erected in 1853-55 for Martin Priest and then sold to resident innkeeper Samuel Cozens. The colonial georgian style inn ceased operations in 1859 following eclipse by hotels newly established in the nearby township of Camperdown. The substantial part two storey bluestone structue replaced a primitive wayside inn of 1841. The old Timboon Inn stands on a site used as a wayside inn since 1841 and ... more	B1401	Regional
Former Taylor & Sangster Nursery 85 Sangsters Road, MOUNT MACEDON VIC 3441 - Property No G13111	The Taylor and Sangster nursery site, established in 1875 and operated until the 1930s by descendants of Sangster, is of State cultural significance: Classified: 15/09/1993 - for its collection of trees and plants, representative of nineteenth century horticultural fashion; incorporating many species now rare in cultivation in Victoria; for several outstanding individual specimens listed separately on the National Trust Register of Significant Trees; - ... more	G13111	State
Former Townhouse Cinnibar House , 'Carlton Weather Bureau' , The Weathercock & Cider Tavern 117 Drummond Street and S.W. Cnr Drummond Place,, CARLTON VIC 3053 - Property No B0475	The former townhouse was erected in 1865-66 for James Henry Matthais. It appears that the facade was rendered in 1869. the two storey brick and stone structure has a tiny tower with a weather vane and a cantilevered first floor balcony to the plainly decorated facade. Although once known as the old 'Weather Bureau', the building never served that purpose. This unique and well known building combines an incredible mixture of materials and motifs into a most unusual townhouse ... more	B0475	Regional

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