Former State Savings Bank
50 Main Street CROYDON, MAROONDAH CITY
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Statement of Significance
A two-storey brick Renaissance revival former State Savings Bank of Victoria designed by W.H. Tunbridge, architect in 1927-28. It is the earliest surviving substantial bank in the municipality and is also historically significant to Maroondah and for its long association with the family and business life of Croydon. It has architectural value in demonstrating the Bank's allegiance to this architectural style of which it is a fine 1920s example.
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Former State Savings Bank - Physical Description 1
A two-storey abstracted Renaissance revival red brick former bank, with a tiled hipped roof. There are three bays to the Main Street front and five and a half bays to Lacey Street. It has a rendered base ruled as banded rustication, with square sinkings. Rafters are exposed. First floor windows are double-hung, the top sashes nine-paned. There is a broad rendered soffit band below the first floor windows, between flat moulds. At ground floor centre is a porch, rendered, with a parapet, rising at its centre. There are display windows beside it. Chimneys are plain brick and expressed as a step in the wall, which is reflected in the one end a half bay width, with similar projection in the symmetrical bay. At the rear is a recent major addition, broadly sympathetic.
Former State Savings Bank - Intactness
Ground floor windows are all replaced and lowered into the base. The bas-relief lettering has been removed. The rendered panel over side windows has been enlarged. The former polished timber stair has been relocated into the adjoining building. Roof tiles have been replaced. Doors have been removed.
Heritage Study and Grading
Maroondah - Maroondah Heritage Identification Study
Author: Richard Peterson with Peter Barrett
Year: 1998
Grading:
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MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CENTREVictorian Heritage Register H0054
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Croyden War MemorialVic. War Heritage Inventory
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