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FORMER POLICE RESIDENCE AND LOCK-UP
19 HEALES STREET TALBOT, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE

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FORMER POLICE RESIDENCE AND LOCK-UP SOHE 2008
FORMER POLICE RESIDENCE AND LOCK-UP SOHE 2008
FORMER POLICE RESIDENCE AND LOCK-UP SOHE 2008
FORMER POLICE RESIDENCE AND LOCK-UP SOHE 2008
FORMER POLICE RESIDENCE AND LOCK-UP SOHE 2008
h00533 1 former police residence and lock up heales street talbot front view she project 2003
h00533 former police residence and lock up heales street talbot front corner she project 2003
h00533 former police residence and lock up heales street talbot lock up gate she project 2003
h00533 former police residence and lock up heales street talbot lock up she project 2003
h00533 former police residence and lock up heales street talbot lock up window she project 2003
h00533 former police residence and lock up heales street talbot stables she project 2003
Former Police Residence& Lockup Talbot Police Quarters Jun 1981
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Statement of Significance

The Former Talbot Lock-up was constructed by GF Langridge & Co in 1863 at a cost of ₤749. The police quarters were built by Robert Linay and completed in 1866 at a cost of ₤667 and the police stables were built by William Phelan at a cost of ₤151. All designs were by the Public Works Department.

The Lock-up is constructed of coursed rusticated bluestone on a smooth finished plinth and the corners and openings have arrised edges. The building has three cells and a lobby and is planned with a long gabled wing. The roof is clad with slate, has broadened eaves and the gables have simple timber bargeboards. The building is substantially intact and retains the grilles to the slit windows, its iron doors and cast- iron roof-plumbing (one down-pipe has been removed).

The Talbot Lock-up pre-dates the other two known examples of this type of lock-up in Victoria (Smythesdale, 1869 and Bairnsdale, 1890) and is complete with the residence and stables. It is a reasonably rare surviving example of a sizeable country lock-up in bluestone given additional significance by its siting within the public precinct of the town and in proximity to its related police buildings and as a survivor of the middle years of the Talbot and Clunes gold rushes.

The residence is a standard Public Works Department design of the time and is constructed of face red brick with a slate roof. It is double- fronted with an asymmetrical gabled projection and a verandah on timber posts. Originally of four rooms, it has been extended to the rear.
The stable is a small rectangular building constructed of face red brickwork on a coursed bluestone plinth with a gabled slate roof with a gabled slate roof with deep eaves and has lattice work at the head of the gables. It retains its brick floor.

The Talbot police buildings derive their significance primarily from the bluestone lock-up but, taken as a whole, present a significant reminder of the police work on the goldfields of Victoria.

[Source: Historic Buildings Council]

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    • History

      FORMER POLICE RESIDENCE AND LOCK-UP - History

      from Richard Aitken's Talbot Walking Tour.

      Gold was first discovered in the area in the early 1850s and until 1859 development consolidated along Back Creek on 'the Flat'. In that year golad was discovered on the present township of Talbot and the name Scandinavian Lead was chosen for the ridch alluvial lead. The find was so attractive that, despite an earleier government survey of blocks on Back Creek Flat as many as 30,000 people descend on Scandinavian Lead and created a huge canvas town in the early months of the rush. The population soon stablised at several thousand and the early canvas stores were quickly replaced by brick or timber structures. A second wave of buildings were erected in the mid to late 1860s and now form the bulk of the buildings still found in Talbot.

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