East Ballarat Post Office (Former)
21 Main Road, BAKERY HILL VIC 3354 - Property No 2021560
Bridge Street Mall / Bakery Hill
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Statement of Significance
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East Ballarat Post Office (Former) - Physical Description 1
This building was constructed in 1884 to a Public Works Department design for a cost ofi3,332. The drawings were initialled by J.Marsden. In 1885 the clock was added.
This building is very similar to the Shepparton Post Office of 1881 which exhibits a new decorative treatment on the familiar Italianate palazzo composition. After the austerity of William Wardell, who left the Department in 1878, and until 1885 post offices displayed more variety with new window decorations, polychrome brickwork and flattened arches, but they retained the palazzo forms. This building provides a typical combination of elements such as stilted segmental arches on cast iron columns, and Venetian/Florentine Gothic windows in the upper storey. The whole composition is still a simple classical form with a recessed arcaded loggia symmetrically placed on the ground floor.
This building, despite alterations including the painting of the polychrome brickwork, the removal of the roof slate and cast iron ridge decoration and the replacement with cement tiles, provides a significant corner streetscape element.
The picket and cast iron fencing is intact. The positioning of the new telephone
boxes is inappropriate. This building would be greatly enhanced by a
correctly and carefully organised restoration programme
East Ballarat Post Office (Former) - Intactness
INTACTNESS:
semit-intact
Heritage Study and Grading
Ballarat - Ballarat Heritage Precincts Study
Author: Dr David Rowe and Wendy Jacobs
Year: 2006
Grading:Ballarat - Ballarat Conservation Study
Author: Jacobs Lewis Vines Architects
Year: 1978
Grading:
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SYNAGOGUEVictorian Heritage Register H0106
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FORMER BALLARAT EAST FREE LIBRARYVictorian Heritage Register H1493
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FORMER POLICE STATION, BALLARATVictorian Heritage Register H1544
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"1890"Yarra City
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"AMF Officers" ShedMoorabool Shire
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"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
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'ELAINE'Boroondara City
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-oonahYarra City
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..eld HouseYarra City
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