COLLINGWOOD TOWN HALL

140 HODDLE STREET ABBOTSFORD, Yarra City

Built in 1885-90 to a design of Melbourne architect, George Johnson, the Collingwood Town Hall complex comprises town hall, library, municipal offices, court house and post office, all…

ALEXANDRA COURT HOUSE AND FORMER SHIRE OFFICES

38A DOWNEY STREET ALEXANDRA, MURRINDINDI SHIRE

The public offices at Alexandra are architecturally significant as an uncommon example of public works architecture, which incorporates a post office, shire offices and courthouse into a…

ARARAT COURT HOUSE

63-75 BARKLY STREET ARARAT, ARARAT RURAL CITY

Completed in 1866-67, Ararat Court House is a small, symmetrical brick building designed by Public Works Department architect Gustav Joachimi in the Victorian Free Classical style with a…

FORMER ARARAT GAOL

1-7 GIRDLESTONE STREET ARARAT, Ararat Rural City

J Ward was built in 1860-63 as the Ararat Gaol, to a design based on the Pentonville concept by the Public Works Department. It was run as a Gaol until 1886. In 1887, after alterations, the…

FORMER AVOCA COURT HOUSE

85 HIGH STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE

The Avoca Court House is a small, single-storey brick structure built in 1858-59 in response to rapid and substantial population growth generated by the rush for alluvial gold in Avoca in…

LOCK-UP

6 DAVEY STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE

Lock-up, Avoca, forms part of a complex including a court house, police magazine and residence. The lock-up was constructed in 1867, presumably to the designs of the public works department…

FORMER POLICE RESIDENCE

6 DAVEY STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE

The Former Police Residence, Avoca, built in 1859, is part of a larger justice precinct designed by the Public Works Department and includes the court house (1859), powder magazine (1860) and…

COURT HOUSE

123 MAIN STREET BACCHUS MARSH, Moorabool Shire

The Bacchus Marsh Court House was built in 1858-59. It was designed by Samuel White of the Public Works Department. White was employed as a draftsman with the Public Works Department from…

POLICE STATION AND OLD LOCK-UP

119 MAIN STREET BACCHUS MARSH, Moorabool Shire

This sandstone lock-up was built in 1857 by the P.W.D. A simple 2 cell rectangular building built of local sandstone. This masonry is unusual in being finished to a fair face and then picked…

COURT HOUSE

14 NICHOLSON STREET BAIRNSDALE, East Gippsland Shire

Bairnsdale Court House was built in 1893 during a severe economic depression and held its first sitting on 25 April 1894. An unusually extravagant building for these times, it was designed…

HUYGHUE HOUSE

15 CAMP STREET BALLARAT CENTRAL, BALLARAT CITY

A substantial police barracks building of multi-coloured brick construction on a bluestone base. The verandah iron work is notable. Reference is made to the disposition of the windows of the…

BALMORAL COURT HOUSE

35 GLENDINNING STREET BALMORAL, Southern Grampians Shire

The Balmoral Court house was designed by Alfred T Snow and built by the Public Works Department in 1876. It is a weatherboard building with a gabled roof of corrugated galvanized iron and…

BEECHWORTH JUSTICE PRECINCT

FORD STREET WILLIAMS STREET HIGH STREET BEECHWORTH, Indigo Shire

Gold was discovered at Beechworth in 1852 and the township of Beechworth was proclaimed on 1 July 1853. On 23 August 1856 the Municipal District of Beechworth was proclaimed and the first…

FORMER BEECHWORTH GAOL

REFORMATORY RESERVE, WILLIAMS STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

The Former Beechworth Gaol, including: the perimeter walls and watch towers, the entrance gateways and iron gates; the gaolers quarters and turnkeys quarters on either side of the entrance;…

LAW COURTS

77-85 PALL MALL BENDIGO, Greater Bendigo City

The Bendigo Law Courts building was designed by the Victorian Public Works architect George W. Watson in the Victorian Second Empire style and built in 1892-96 by contractors McCulloch and…

FORMER BENDIGO GAOL

10-20 GAOL ROAD BENDIGO, Greater Bendigo City

Bendigo Prison Complex was built as Sandhurst Gaol in 1861-64 on a hill overlooking the town. Designed on the panopticon principle by Samuel Wright and C.G. Ross of Victoria's Public Works…

OLD POLICE BARRACKS

40 GAOL ROAD BENDIGO, Greater Bendigo City

The Former Bendigo Police Barracks, Rosalind Park, were erected in 1860 by the public works department. The architect responsible was AT Snow and the contractor was J Robertson. The building…

FORMER SUPREME COURT

10-20 GAOL ROAD BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

The former Supreme Court, Bendigo was constructed in 1857-58 by the Public Works Department for the Crown Law Department, necessitated by the decision to hold circuit court sessions in…

BRIGHT COURT HOUSE AND LOCKUP

1-3 PARK STREET BRIGHT, ALPINE SHIRE

Bright Court House is a single storey brick building constructed as a court of petty sessions for the Buckland goldfields in 1861 to a design by the Public Works Department architect JJ…

BUNINYONG TOWN HALL AND COURT HOUSE

313 LEARMONTH STREET BUNINYONG, Ballarat City

The Buninyong Town Hall was designed to fill the dual role of town hall and courthouse. Buninyong municipality was formed in 1863. In 1869 tenders were called for the erection of a hall and…

COURT HOUSE

179 MANIFOLD STREET and 4 MCNICOL STREET CAMPERDOWN, Corangamite Shire

The Camperdown Court House was constructed in Medieval Gothic Revival style in 1886-7, to the design of Public Works Department architect GBH Austin as a replacement for an earlier timber…

POLICE STATION

334-344 DRUMMOND STREET CARLTON, Melbourne City

Carlton Police Station was designed by Public Works Department architects William Steel and George Watson and erected in 1878 by contractor William Smith. It is a two storey brick building…

CARLTON COURT HOUSE

345-349 DRUMMOND STREET CARLTON, Melbourne City

The Carlton Courthouse was constructed by John Short in 1887 to the design of Public Works Department architect GBH Austin. The building is a single-storeyed Gothic style structure composed…

FORMER CASTLEMAINE GAOL

36-48 BOWDEN STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

HM Prison, Castlemaine was constructed of local sandstone between 1857 and 1861. It represents an important phase in the development of prison design associated with the completion of the…

BROADOAKS

31 GINGELL STREET CASTLEMAINE, Mount Alexander Shire

Broadoaks, 31 Gingell Street, Castlemaine is a single storey house erected in 1854 as the district police inspector's residence, the architect being CD Balmain. The house is asymmetrically…