Plenty War Memorial Gates, 103-107 Yan Yean Road, Plenty
103-107 Yan Yean Road PLENTY, NILLUMBIK SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
HERITAGE VALUE 2005: Local
PLACE TYPE: Gateway, memorial
SIGNIFICANCE ASSESSMENT
What is significant?
Fabric (gates & environs, including land within 5m of their perimeter) associated with the 1950s;
How is it significant?
Plenty War Memorial Gates are locally significant historically and socially.
Why is it significant?
Plenty War Memorial Gates are significant:
- as the focus of remembrance of war service in the Plenty district (Criterion A), and
- one of a group of much valued civic structures in the immediate area (Criterion A4, G1)
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Plenty War Memorial Gates, 103-107 Yan Yean Road, Plenty - Physical Description 1
These memorial gates are at the entry to the recreation reserve, now Plenty Park. The include 1.2M wide pedestrian gates set either side of a 3.76m wide vehicle gateway, as marked by masonry piers with moulded cement capping, random freestone facing. Decorative wrought-iron gates, set between each pier, have panelled scrolled friezes at the top, midway and bottom. The main gate top rails have a scrolled profile and the rods to each gate have hooked ends, rising above the top rails.
Plenty War Memorial Gates, 103-107 Yan Yean Road, Plenty - Physical Description 2
Integrity
Generally near original. Visually unrelated Armco guard rails have been placed at the approach to the gates: more appropriate options might include bollards.
Plenty War Memorial Gates, 103-107 Yan Yean Road, Plenty - Physical Description 3
Context
Set at the recreation reserve, below the Plenty hall and school, as part of the civic centre of this small community.
Heritage Study and Grading
Nillumbik - C13 Heritage Stage 2 Final Report Revised Citation
Author: Graeme Butler and Assoc.
Year: 2001
Grading: Local
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