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Corrugated iron, prefabricated, portable building - former Keilor Plains police station
Calder Freeway; off Oaklands Avenue, KEILOR NORTH VIC 3036 - Property No 21

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1658 - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study 1997
1658 - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study 1997
1658 - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study 1997
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Statement of Significance

Of State significance, as one of a small number of all-iron portable buildings, having associations with the provision of government control on the major goldfields route. The building demonstrates the manufacturing methods of mid-nineteenth century building design, incorporating standard cast-iron structural components with mass-produced, corrugated, galvanised iron cladding. Through its association with the provision of policing on the gold route, the building also demonstrates the nature and limitations of administering the rapidly expanding colony at the time of the gold rushes, and methods for dealing with the shortages of both building materials and skilled labour.
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    • Physical Description 1

      Corrugated iron, prefabricated, portable building - former Keilor Plains police station - Physical Description 1

      Bow-roof profile, broad gauge corrugated iron-clad prefabricated, single -room building with cast iron corner and girt frames and tie-rod roof framing. The walls are of corrugated iron panels and joinery which are numbered internally obviously for re-assembly. The building is sited as part of a farm complex on north of highway west off Oakbank Road. Remnants of broad gauge iron suggest another building, since demolished, a short distance to the north-east. This was evidently timber-framed. Rubble stone-walled wool shed to the north-east with timber-framed corrugated iron cladding (Lysaght iron brand 1953) . A weatherboard dairy, next to the brick-lined in-ground water tank/well, stands near the current property boundary on the freeway side, with basalt-paved yards and driveways extending towards the road. The now-demolished homestead of the complex originally stood within the freeway reservation.

      Condition/Integrity

      The hut is in relatively good condition, with only monotr signs of corrosion, generally to the bottom of the corrugated iron sheets.

      Physical Conditions

      Corrugated iron, prefabricated, portable building - former Keilor Plains police station - Physical Conditions

      The hut is in relatively good condition, with only minor signs of corrosion, generally to the bottom of the corrugated iron sheets.

      Historical Australian Themes

      Corrugated iron, prefabricated, portable building - former Keilor Plains police station - Historical Australian Themes

      7 Governing
      7.6 Administering Australia

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Brimbank - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study

      Author: G. Vines
      Year: 2000
      Grading: State

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