Former Raywood Town Hall
50-52 INGLEWOOD STREET, RAYWOOD - PROPERTY NUMBER 201093, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
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Statement of Significance
The former Raywood Town Hall is of local social significance (Criterion G) as a venue for public meetings and congregations since 1915. The building's prominent location, and its capacity to recall Raywood's heyday during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century enhance this aspect of its significance. The former Town Hall is one of a number of surviving modestly-sized former shire and town halls which recall the spread of local government in the goldfields region, and the civic independence of often small centres in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prior to later municipal amalgamations. The association with Henry Edmeades Tolhurst, successful Eaglehawk architect, is also of note.
The former town hall is also of aesthetic/architectural significance as an externally intact, elegantly designed and executed, and prominently located former town hall (Criterion E). Although a small building, its high volume, symmetrical facade, prominent break-fronted entry bay with recessed doors, bichrome brick walling with contrasting brick quoining, central pediment and tall broad-corniced chimneys, all add vigour to the building's presentation.
The former town hall also reads as a civic or municipal building, which further distinguishes the structure in its streetscape, and demonstrates some of the principal characteristics of a number of small brick shire halls in the Bendigo area, including examples at Marong and Strathfieldsaye (Criterion D). All of these three buildings have a tripartite facade. It is additionally significant as one of a number of surviving small brick shire and town halls in the Bendigo region, with others at Marong, Huntly (1867), and Strathfieldsaye (1869).
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Former Raywood Town Hall - Physical Description 1
The former Raywood Town Hall occupies a narrow allotment running between Inglewood Street (as the Elmore-Raywood Road is known at Raywood) and McKay Street to the rear. It was inspected externally.
The former town hall is a small building, albeit with a high volume, of brick construction with a hipped roof and symmetrical break-fronted (north) facade in tuck-pointed bichrome brick; a pediment surmounts the projecting central section, which has deeply recessed entrance doors. The hipped roof is clad in corrugated galvanised steel and has two broad-corniced chimneys with conspicuous bases and bichrome stacks. The eaves are boxed with a single line of vent perforations around the sides and front. There are three recessed signage panels with a stucco base to the north elevation, reading 'TOWN' and 'HALL' over the front windows and '1878' over the front door. The windows are double-hung sashes, the lower panes being frosted. The two door leafs and fanlight are replacements - the original fanlight had a central glazing bar. The windows and the front door have cambered headers. The contrasting cream bricks are arranged in a quoin effect by being set in an alternating extra header's width every four courses.
There is a later and lower-scale addition to the west, linked to the original building by a recessed glazed vestibule. It has red brick walling of a later and differing brick and a hipped roof.
The former town hall has a shallow set back from Inglewood Street and is set to the rear of a timber picket fence. This is a sympathetic replacement of the original picket fence. The red letter box on the pavement to the east of the entrance is of long standing.
The property is braced east-west with S bars, but appears to be in generally sound condition.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Bendigo - Heritage Policy Citations Review
Author: Lovell Chen P/L
Year: 2011
Grading: Local
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