Carnegie Primary School, 27-63 Truganini Road
27-63 Truganini Road CARNEGIE, GLEN EIRA CITY
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Statement of Significance
The front wing of the Carnegie State School has aesthetic importance for its Arts and Crafts influenced additions of 1909which are picturesque and distinguished by their unusual details including wrought iron gutter brackets and cast cement decoration. The earlier (original) southern portion of this wing has been altered but is locally important as a surviving nineteenth century public building in Carnegie.
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Carnegie Primary School, 27-63 Truganini Road - Physical Description 1
A picturesque single storeyed polychrome brick school with steeply sloping gable ended and hipped roofs, erected in stages. The earliest late Victorian section is distinguished by Queen Anne influenced joinery including eaves brackets, barges and window shade. The white tuck pointed red bricks are relieved with white tuckpointed white brick dressings with blackened courses. Stone sills and grouped gable lights, characteristic of the period are key elements.
A later wing is sympathetic though further distinguished by Arts and Crafts influenced joinery, rough cast work and Serlian window motif to the main gable end window.
A distinctive north addition also demonstrating Arts and Crafts influence incorporates a front porch, now out of use, with cast cement semi-circular pediment with the words "Carnegie No. 2897 State School". Massing is picturesque with multiple half timbered gables complemented by distinctive detail including the roof vent treatment, wrought iron gutter brackets, ashlar work and Medieval influenced (?) stuccoed enrichment to the lower gable ends.
The west elevation includes a verandah with Tuscan Order timber columns.
Inside, timber lined ceilings follow the slope of the roof with exposed tie rods.Carnegie Primary School, 27-63 Truganini Road - Physical Description 2
Integrity: Good, covered way attached at rear, some openings bricked up and altered.
Carnegie Primary School, 27-63 Truganini Road - Physical Description 3
Condition: goodsubstantial detached wing (1921) at rear, now defaced.
Carnegie Primary School, 27-63 Truganini Road - Historical Australian Themes
Public Services: Education
Heritage Study and Grading
Glen Eira - Caulfield Conservation Study
Author: Andrew Ward, Architectural Historian
Year: 1994
Grading:
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