Geelong Artillery Orderly Rooms
200 Myers Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No 311682
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Statement of Significance
B Listed - Regional Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
Historically, given its high integrity, it is a continuing expression of the beginnings of government paid armed forces.
Architecturally, the final stage in a drill hall design theme, which commenced in the 1880s and is seen herein its most developed form, as marked by its detached quarters. It is one of a small distinctive group of buildings created for the new militia defence forces and an exotic prelude to the numerous pedestrian army buildings seen more prevalently after World War One.
REFERENCE
NOW 3.3.00
NOW 30.6..00
See W Span drill hall report
See Butler< Williamstown Rifle Range Victorian Rifle Club Rooms 1989 report to the Urban Land Authority.
Willingham, sheet 160, cites GA 30/10/79
Span, Castlemaine Orderly Room Report for Charge of Annuity, 1983
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Geelong Artillery Orderly Rooms - Physical Description 1
DESCRIPTION
Matching almost exactly the original working drawings elevations, today's drill hall possesses all of the picturesque timber fantasy of he first 1880s designs, with its broad attic style gable and ornate timber detailing. Although originally reminiscent of Swiss Chalet medieval domestic architecture, the design translates well into the prevailing Edwardian villa styles which also used trussed gables and ornate timber detailing. The ribbed red brick chimneys are also interchangeable with Geelong Edwardian house chimneys. The similarity is most evident in the adjoining quarters, a double-fronted asymmetrically planned verandahed timber house which also has a trussed gable. Only the verandah detailing differs from typical domestic practice, using the established Public Works verandah bracket instead of the fretted designs seen locally, perhaps best in Connor Street.
External Integrity
Generally original the residence fence has been replaced sympathetically. Rear detached additions from differing periods may be related to the hall.
Streetscape
A major and distinctive corner building in a valuable government cum ecclesiastical streetscape, linked by use and the large detached building forms. Not in a precinct.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong City Urban Conservation Study
Author: Graeme Butler
Year: 1993
Grading:
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FORMER SCOTTISH CHIEFS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0662
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CORIO VILLAVictorian Heritage Register H0193
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MERCHISTON HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0192
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