Dwelling (Former Police Station and Gaol)
29 Main Street MYRNIONG, MOORABOOL SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The former Police Station and Gaol at 29 Main Street, Myrniong.
How is it significant?
The former Police Station and Gaol at 29 Main Street, Myrniong is of local historical and aesthetic significance to the Shire of Moorabool.
Why is it significant?
The former Police Station and Gaol at 29 Main Street, Myrniong is of historical significance as an early and important civic building demonstrating the establishment of Myrniong in the 1870s. The Police Station and Gaol were constructed around 1870, but only used for that purpose until 1877. The Gaol is of historical significance as a rare building type dating from an early period in Victoria's history, and demonstrating law enforcement practices in the mid 19th century.
The former Police Station & Stables, 29 Main Street, Myrniong is of aesthetic significance as a representative and intact example of an early bluestone Police Station, contributing to the distinctive group of bluestone buildings in Main Street, Myrniong. The building demonstrates key features of a mid 19th century bluestone dwelling including the hipped roof, symmetrical design, tuckpointed bluestone ashlar with dressed quoins, skillion verandah spanning between end wing walls, four panel front timber door, and timber framed double hung windows with six pane sashes. The Gaol at the rear is of aesthetic significance as a rare surviving example of a building type. It is also of significance for its construction in local sandstone.
1995
An ashlar bluestone former police station and gaol (outbuilding), built about 1870 and operating until 1877.
It has local historical significance in demonstrating the effect of government action on a rural community, and architecturally significant as a representative example of a relatively intact surviving early bluestone house, one of a group in Main Street.
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Dwelling (Former Police Station and Gaol) - Physical Description 1
House.
Double-fronted symmetrical bluestone early house with an outbuilding, formerly police residence and goal. Walls are ashlar with dressed quoins. There is a timber verandah with a concave roof; extending between two wing-walls with sandstone parapets. A very unusual type, like a row house. There is a hip, M - profile roof with a skilIion extension at the rear. The four -panel door has a fly-screen door and fanlight. There are stone chimneys.
Outbuilding.
A two-storey sandstone outbuilding at the left of the house, at the rear The gable facing has doors in both levels, like a barn, with monolithic stone lintels.
Dwelling (Former Police Station and Gaol) - Historical Australian Themes
Governing
Dwelling (Former Police Station and Gaol) - Intactness
SIGNIFICANT INTACT ELEMENTS:
MATERIALS, FORM, FACADE. VERANDAH.
UNPAINTED FINISH.
House. Good. Wing walls have been painted. The verandah decoration appears to have been replaced. The fence is not appropriate.
Outbuilding. Reasonable. A skillion addition at left appears to have been removed, or burnt down.
Dwelling (Former Police Station and Gaol) - Usage/Former Usage
USE: House.
PR EVIOUS USE: Police Station and Gaol.
Heritage Study and Grading
Moorabool - Bacchus Marsh Heritage Study 1995
Author: Richard Peterson and Daniel Catrice
Year: 1995
Grading:
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Former Bluestone Hotel & Changing StablesNational Trust
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Former Bluestone Police StationNational Trust
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The Shannon HotelNational Trust
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