FORMER BENDIGO EAST STATE SCHOOL NO.3893
93 STRICKLAND ROAD, EAST BENDIGO - PROPERTY NUMBER 227652, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
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Statement of Significance
The main brick school building at the former Bendigo East State School is of architectural significance as a good and externally relatively intact example of a brick school building of the 1910s. The building exhibits design qualities and detailing typical of the early twentieth century. Of note are the elaborate rendered pediment and the use of roughcast finish, including to the distinctive tapered chimneys in combination with the red brick. (Criterion E)
Bendigo East State School, which closed in the mid-1990s, has been a long-standing focus for the Bendigo community and there is a level of local attachment to the place particularly on the part of former pupils. (Criterion G)
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FORMER BENDIGO EAST STATE SCHOOL NO.3893 - Physical Description 1
Description and integrity
The former Bendigo East State School is located on a large allotment to the north-west corner of Strickland Road and Murphy Street in East Bendigo.
The main school building is a single-storey brick structure set on a stone plinth, asymmetrical in plan, with a hipped roof clad with slate, punctuated by three rendered brick chimneys. Roughcast rendered detailing features to the main south facade and the west elevation, while large multi-paned windows feature to the south elevation. The projecting east wing is balanced by a smaller entry wing to the west. This wing has an elaborate rendered pediment, inscribed with lettering reading 'Bendigo East School No. 3893 - 1915'. The double entry doors appear to be non-original. The north elevation has a skillion-roofed timber structure which while not inspected at close quarters, appears to be an addition.
The area immediately surrounding the main building is asphalted for playing surfaces, while the remainder of the site is informally landscaped with a number of mature gum trees. Demountable classrooms and outbuildings are located to the north and east of the main building.
FORMER BENDIGO EAST STATE SCHOOL NO.3893 - Intactness
Fair
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Bendigo - White Hills & East Bendigo Heritage Study 2014
Author: Lovell Chen
Year: 2015
Grading: Local
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