Bandiana Ground Maintenance Office/Workshop (Army No.382)
Gaza Ridge, South Bandiana BANDIANA, Wodonga City
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Statement of Significance
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Bandiana Ground Maintenance Office/Workshop (Army No.382) - Physical Description 1
The Bandiana Maintenance Office/Workshop looks like two different buildings joined together. The main (SE) part is a tall sawtooth-roofed workshop with vertical cgi cladding on the walls, cgi on the sloping face of the roof with bullnose curve at the top, curving over the top edge of the six vertical wired-glass 'southlights' (actually facing south-east). There are no other windows. The SE wall is plain cgi, but there are several large sliding doors on the SW and NE sides. It has a rusty '70' painted on the side walls. At the NW end there is an attached steel-framed gable-roofed annex with cgi cladding on the roof and two end walls, but with the NW side open, revealing five truck-sized vehicle maintenance bays, each with a large in-floor hydraulic vehicle hoist. This suggests the whole building was originally intended for vehicle maintenance.
Around the building there is a wide concrete apron with deep draining channels around the perimeter. The channels are covered with grates made of upturned caterpillar-style tank tracks set flush with the concrete, and presumably strong enough to carry heavy vehicles - a clever idea. Army No.382.
This was a common style of industrial building elsewhere, but is not in the style of the other WW2 workshop buildings at Bandiana.Bandiana Ground Maintenance Office/Workshop (Army No.382) - Physical Conditions
There is some minor rusting of the cgi cladding, but from outside the structure looks sound.
Veterans Description for Public
Bandiana Ground Maintenance Office/Workshop (Army No.382) - Veterans Description for Public
The Bandiana Maintenance Office/Workshop (Army No.382) looks like two different buildings joined together. Like the other structures on this site, the building dates from the Second World War. The main (SE) part is a tall sawtooth-roofed workshop with vertical cgi cladding on the walls, cgi on the sloping face of the roof with bullnose curve at the top, curving over the top edge of the six vertical wired-glass 'southlights' (actually facing south-east). There are no other windows. The SE wall is plain cgi, but there are several large sliding doors on the SW and NE sides. It has a rusty '70' painted on the side walls. At the NW end there is an attached steel-framed gable-roofed annex with cgi cladding on the roof and two end walls, but with the NW side open, revealing five truck-sized vehicle maintenance bays, each with a large in-floor hydraulic vehicle hoist. This suggests the whole building was originally intended for vehicle maintenance.
Around the building there is a wide concrete apron with deep draining channels around the perimeter. The channels are covered with grates made of upturned caterpillar-style tank tracks set flush with the concrete, and presumably strong enough to carry heavy vehicles.Heritage Study and Grading
Wodonga - Wodonga Heritage Study Stage 1
Author: Freeman Randell
Year: 2004
Grading:
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