Collingwood Town Hall

140 Hoddle Street, ABBOTSFORD VIC 3067 - Property No 104275

Charles Street Precinct

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Statement of Significance

• Other Records For This Place
  • COLLINGWOOD TOWN HALL - Victorian Heritage Register
• Additional Place Information

  • Physical Description 1

    Collingwood Town Hall - Physical Description 1

    A grandiose late Victorian boom style town hall complex consisting of former library, former post and telegraph offices, municipal offices, court house and town hall.

    The main west facing facade is symmetrical about a central portico surmounted by a three staged tower and French Second Empire style zinc sheeted roof and cast iron lace balustrade with flag pole. Flanking pavilions have similar fish scale slated' roofs with windows and are separate. by means of colonnaded recessed wings. The secondary Stanton Street facade is also Palladian with flanking pavilions and with central pedimented town hall entrance surmounted by the Royal coat of arms.
    
    Inside, the hall and lobby have been rebuilt in the Art Deco style although. the cast iron balcony railings and ceiling survive.

    Significant 1934-5 internal changes designed by A C Leith & Associates/ Leith & Bartlett Ward.

    Integrity

    Collingwood Town Hall - Integrity

    Good

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Yarra - City of Collingwood Conservation Study

    Author: Andrew Ward & Associates
    Year: 1989
    Grading: Local

    Yarra - City of Collingwood Conservation Study

    Author: Andrew Ward & Associates
    Year: 1995
    Grading: Local

    Yarra - City of Yarra Heritage Review

    Author: Allom Lovell & Associates
    Year: 1998
    Grading:

    Yarra - City of Yarra Review of Heritage Overlay Areas

    Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
    Year: 2007
    Grading: State

• Attachments
  • 1995 - Building Citation - Collingwood Conservation Study Review, 1995
    
  • 1999 - City of Yarra Aboriginal Cultural Signage Project, 1999 - Recreation and Meeting Places
    
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