Chancery House
38 Lydiard Street South, BALLARAT CENTRAL VIC 3350 - Property No 2021000
Lydiard Street Heritage Precinct
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Statement of Significance
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Chancery House - Physical Description 1
This building, constructed in c.1880, is a neatly detailed composition of columns superimposed on masonry piers. To the ground floor, an inappropriate mode entrance disrupts the continuous repetition of Roman doric columns. Above this is a partially surviving doric frieze of triglyphs and metopes, then a dentillated cornice, and an upper floor of reduced Corinthian shafts on pedestals, between which are elegantly turned balusters. The upper windows are expressed as an arcade on piers running behind the columns, and the timber blind hoods are intact. This building provides an extremely important corner streetscape element.
Despite the disastrous alterations to the Lydiard Street facade, the building reads as a well proportioned and refined Renaissance revival composition. The Chancery Lane elevation is substantially intact. The facade composition resembles that of the State Bank, Sturt Street (of 1872), but the quoin stones, Roman doric columns and elegant balusters make this possibly more sophisticated.
It differs from the bank in being an almost square building with almost identical facade treatments to both elevations. The building would be significantly enhanced by the restoration of this section of the ground floor facade.Chancery House - Integrity
FACADE ALTERED
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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