Toora Fire Brigade Station
20 Gray Street TOORA, South Gippsland Shire
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Statement of Significance
What is Significant?
The Toora Fire Brigade Station, designed by the Country Fire Brigade Architect and constructed by Seton & Snell in 1933 and the bell tower added in 1938, at 20 Gray Street, Toora.
Why is it Significant?
The Toora Fire Brigade Station is of local historic significance to South Gippsland Shire.
Historically, it is significant as the oldest fire brigade station in South Gippsland Shire and demonstrates the beginnings of volunteer rural fire brigades. The bell tower commemorates the official inauguration of the brigade in 1938 by the Country Fires Brigade, the predecessor of the Country Fire Authority. (AHC criteria A4, D2 and H1)
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Toora Fire Brigade Station - Physical Description 1
The Toora Urban Fire Brigade Station is a weatherboard building with a hip iron roof, and metal bell tower at one side.
Heritage Study and Grading
South Gippsland - South Gippsland Heritage Study
Author: David Helms with Trevor Westmore
Year: 2004
Grading:
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