Berry Street, Sutherland Child Youth and Family Services Complex
2-10 Yan Yean Road DIAMOND CREEK, NILLUMBIK SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
REVISED STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE, CONTEXT, 2010
What is significant?
The c1929 Sutherland Homes orphanage excluding the later skillion roof wing on the north east corner of the building.
How is it significant?
The Sutherland homes orphanage building is historically, architecturally and socially significant to the Shire of Nillumbik.
Why is it significant?
The orphanage building is architecturally significant for its external, near original, state and because of its sophisticated Spanish Mission design by the well known architects Sydney Smith Ogg & Serpell, who were leading exponents of the beaux-arts style, and because few similar buildings from the period exist within the Shire (Criteria B, F & E).
It is historically significant for its connection with Sulina Sutherland and the Sutherland homes for neglected and destitute children, which was known across the State for its work (Criteria A & H). The orphanage is socially significant as a public institution, which has served the Shire for a long period of time (Criteria G).
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Berry Street, Sutherland Child Youth and Family Services Complex - Physical Description 1
"Sited in a semi-rural landscape among exotic and native planting and close to the road frontage, the administration block of this complex is a red brick and stuccoed 1930s structure with a Marseilles pattern terra-cotta tiled roof, red brick side pavilions and a central pavilion wing in a parapeted stuccoed Spanish revival style, with porch and arched windows. An unrelated but usual outbuilding at the rear has a" corrugated iron clad saw-tooth roof and 1960s-70s buildings are further into the site (see also Meglin house). Further inspection of, and research on, this site may reveal other related structures and plantings.
Berry Street, Sutherland Child Youth and Family Services Complex - Historical Australian Themes
Community growth- local government
4.4 Living with slums outcasts and homelessness
8.5.2 Helping other people
8.10.4 Designing and building fine buildings
Heritage Study and Grading
Nillumbik - Nillumbik Shire Heritage Study
Author: Graeme Butler & Assoc
Year: 1997
Grading:Nillumbik - Nillumbik Heritage Investigation
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 2000
Grading:
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YAN YEAN ROAD 1Victorian Heritage Inventory
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Miss Meglin's House & Special School 3660.Nillumbik Shire
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Plenty War Memorial Gates, 103-107 Yan Yean Road, PlentyNillumbik Shire
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