Deer Park Primary School No.1434
Ballarat Road; Station Road, DEER PARK VIC 3023 - Property No 78
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Statement of Significance
Statement of Significance
Deer Park Primary School is of local historical and social significance as a long-lived school which developed to serve the somewhat impoverished nineteenth century local rural community, and greatly expanded to serve new families in the growing suburbs created by post war immigration.-
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Deer Park Primary School No.1434 - Physical Description 1
Description
Located on the corner of Ballarat and Station Road, the present school is a combination of several periods, with the bulk reflecting late 1950s expansion using the typical 'Jennings' design low -slung linear range of buildings with large glass area. The earliest part is of red brick and stone having been constructed following a fire in 1942. This evidently re-used some of the bluestone of the original school building, as a conscious recognition of the schools heritage. This section, which is typical of the Percy Everett Public Works Department designs of the period, comprises a two-classroom building with raised lantern roof and internally-sliding panels as a room divider that can be raised into the ceiling space to create a single space. The next phase of construction came in the early 1960s with timber-framed, standard Education Department design, at one stage including early portable class rooms, later removed, or incorporated into purpose-built additions. This runs along a long central corridor with the 1940s building at the eastern end, forming the main entrance to the complex. In the 1980s, a brick multi-purpose class room was added in the latest wave of building. The grounds include some plantings from early 20th century date (sugar gums - heavily lopped), a large peppercorn tree, Schinus molle var. aveira., very likely contemporaneous with the original 1870s school, and more recent native plantings from the 1970s and later.Deer Park Primary School No.1434 - Physical Conditions
Condition/integrity
Although the earliest building survives only as the stone in the chimney, the subsequent phases are in good condition and intact.Deer Park Primary School No.1434 - Intactness
Substantially intact.
Deer Park Primary School No.1434 - Historical Australian Themes
6 Educating
6.2 Establishing schoolsHeritage Study and Grading
Brimbank - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study
Author: G. Vines
Year: 2000
Grading: Local
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BLACK POWDER MILLVictorian Heritage Register H2029
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Notes See all notes
Original Bluestone Building destroyed by fire
David Gray • 14/04/20
The bluestone incorporated in the pictured chimney were part of the original building which was destroyed by fire I believe in the 1930s.
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Notes See all notes
Original Bluestone Building destroyed by fire
David Gray • 14/04/20
The bluestone incorporated in the pictured chimney were part of the original building which was destroyed by fire I believe in the 1930s.