Kooreh Soldiers Memorial Hall, 7766 Wimmera Highway, KOOREH
7766 Wimmera Highway KOOREH, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The Kooreh Soldiers Memorial Hall, 7766 Wimmera Highway, Kooreh, has significance as an important commemorative icon in Kooreh to the fallen soldiers in the Boer and First World Wars. The building also has significance as an intact example of an interwar hall. Built in 1923, the hall has served the Kooreh community for a variety of purposes throughout the 20th century.
The Kooreh Memorial Hall is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities for an interwar hall building. These qualities include the broad gable roof form, together with the minor open gabled porte cochere at the front. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the stuccoed concrete wall construction, galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, four galvanised ventilation stacks, wide eaves, tablets with the names inscribed of the fallen soldiers in the Boer War and the First World War along the longitudinal walls, timber framed windows with highlights, double three panelled timber entrance doors, stuccoed concrete porte cochere columns and solid balustrade, stuccoed concrete buttresses, decorative timber fretwork and flagpole in the main flying gable end, timber bargeboards and the timber gable infill in the porte cochere. Internally, the spatial layout of the main hall with two rear ante-rooms, hall stage and the smooth finished concrete walls also contribute to the significance of the place.
The Kooreh Memorial Hall is historically and socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of Kooreh in the early 20th century, and commemorates the fallen soldiers in the Boer and First World Wars. Built in 1923, the hall has served the community for a variety of purposes throughout the 20th century. It is therefore recognised and valued by the Kooreh community for cultural, commemorative and recreational reasons.
Overall, the Kooreh Memorial Hall is of LOCAL significance.
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Kooreh Soldiers Memorial Hall, 7766 Wimmera Highway, KOOREH - Physical Description 1
The Kooreh Memorial Hall, 7766 Wimmera Highway, Kooreh, has a rural setting comprising open gravelled and grassed surrounds and a nearby row of eucalypts.
The stuccoed concrete, interwar hall building is characterised by a broad gable roof form, together with a minor open gabled porte cochere at the front. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron. Four galvanised ventilation stacks adorn the roofline. Wide overhangs are features of the eaves. Along the base of the longitudinal walls of the building are early tablets with names inscribed of the fallen soldiers in the Boer War (1901 - 1903) and the First World War (1914-1919).
Other early features of the design include the timber framed windows with highlights, double three panelled timber entrance doors, stuccoed concrete porte cochere columns and solid balustrade, stuccoed concrete buttresses, decorative timber fretwork and flagpole in the main flying gable end, timber bargeboards and the timber gable infill in the porte cochere.
Internally, the building consists of a main hall area and two ante-rooms at the rear. There is a stage in the main hall area, and the wall are finished in smooth render.
COMPARATIVE
The Gre Gre Memorial Hall at Gre Gre Village is of almost identical design and construction as the Kooreh Hall. The Gre Gre building was also constructed in 1923.
Heritage Study and Grading
Northern Grampians - Shire of Northern Grampians - Stage 2 Heritage Study
Author: Wendy Jacobs, Vicki Johnson, David Rowe, Phil Taylor
Year: 2004
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