Court House Public Offices
40 Gheringhap Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 213841
Civic Centre Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
B Listed - Regional Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
Historically, given its near original condition, it represents its construction period faithfully and hence its long-term public building role.
Architecturally, one of Everett's larger Courthouse designs and among his most successful, given its corner site and streetscape contribution. It possesses distinctive finishes and details for a public building (tiles, metal work) and contributes to a valuable public building precinct.
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Court House Public Offices - Physical Description 1
Showing in one sense a high standard of 'architectural manners,' Everett's design (particularly facing Gheringhap Street), takes on many of the classical attributes of the tow earlier buildings (town hall, post office) in Gheringhap Street and probably harmonized successfully with the adjoining Little Malop Street sites 9fire station, temperance hall) , since demolished.
Adopting a traditional courthouse profile, based around the existing building, it possessed a raised two-storey height courtroom, a lower-level colonnaded porch and two flanking pavilions, the Gheringhap Street elevation achieving its contemporary character by simplicity of detail and the all-pervading Cordova-tiled-hip-roof form. In Little Malop Street, a similar tripartite composition also mixed tradition with Modernism but with emphasis on the latter, with its vertical window strips, echoing similar devices used on Everett's Wool and Textile School design at the Gordon Institute of the same era.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong Region Historic Buildings and Objects Study Volume 2
Author: Allan Willingham
Year: 1986
Grading: BGreater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study, Volumes 2-5
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1991
Grading: BGreater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study Volume 1
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1993
Grading: BGreater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study, Volume 4(a)
Author: Helen Lardner
Year: 1995
Grading: B
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FORMER GEELONG WOOL EXCHANGEVictorian Heritage Register H0622
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FORMER SCOTTISH CHIEFS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0662
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GEELONG TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0184
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