Short Street Precinct
SHORT STREET, BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
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Statement of Significance
The individual excellence of many of these building designs is underscored by the hilly terrain which allows spectacular prominences for both house and church siting and provides for picturesque groupings of one building type against the other, offering visually inspiring variations of scale and siting which is nevertheless unified within the language and ornamentation of the 19th and early 20th century architecture.
Combined with the contribution of individual buildings is the associated roadside detail in the form of planting and garden wall using brick and stone, and matching protrusions of natural stone often occurring at the street edge.
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Short Street Precinct - Physical Description 1
Physical characteristics of the precinct divide between secular and ecclesiastical use, with the latter as landmarks surrounded by the former. Typical of the late Victorian era, early 20th Century housing, front and side setbacks are minimal, with a typical one-storey (plus basement) scale and materials being typically cemented brickwork, with some face- brick (red, cream) and use of stone for fences and detailing.
Similarly pitched roofs (of slate or painted corrugated iron), verandahs, opening sizes limited to less than 50% of the wall surface, and use of some symmetrically-arranged elements are common in the area. Fence lines are often individually important elements (46 Mackenzie Street), being both retaining walls and boundary markers.Short Street Precinct - Physical Description 2
Key Sites - former Bendigo civic & residential area
Charles Millward's Jefferson, 19 Forest Street, 1900
George Vibert's House, 55 Forest Street, 1864-65
Robert Mackay's Sommerfield, 46 Mackenzie Street, 1904-5C
Warren House, 12 Rowan Street, 1920
John Mcintyre's Belgravia, 88 Short Street, 1885c
William Milne's Girton College, now Lister House, 37 Rowan Street, 1881
Henry Hawkins' Marlborough Lodge, 115 Wattle Street, 1869-
John Watson's Kent House complex, 121-123 Wattle Street, 1874-5
Paul MacGillivray's Bishopscourt, 40 Forest Street, 1876
Amy & Eileen Castles' Conservatorium of Music, 5 Rowan Street 1902
Robert Moorhead's Illira, 57 Forest Street, 1886
William Tipper's Euroma, 38 Mackenzie Street, 1870
Wesleyan Church, 21-25 Forest Street, 1862-87
Congregational Church later Presbyterian Church, 45 Forest Street 1890
Daniel Kennedy's Osborne House, 31 Mackenzie Street 1869-
Catholic Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wattle Street 1896
Finch and Bosselman's Fernville Terrace, 35-41 Mackenzie Street, 1885
Short Street Precinct - Physical Description 3
Contributory Streets -former Bendigo civic & residential area
FORESTMACKENZIE
ROWAN
WATTLE
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Bendigo - Eaglehawk & Bendigo Heritage Study
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 1993
Grading:
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BENDIGO TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0117
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SPECIMEN COTTAGEVictorian Heritage Register H1615
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BENDIGO SCHOOL OF MINES (BENDIGO TAFE)Victorian Heritage Register H1505
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"1890"Yarra City
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"AMF Officers" ShedMoorabool Shire
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"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
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'Boonderoo', House and OutbuildingsGreater Bendigo City
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'Riverslea' houseGreater Bendigo City
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1 Adam StreetYarra City
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