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Lady Northcote Recreation Camp
1273-1327 Glenmore Road GLENMORE, MOORABOOL SHIRE

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Lady Northcote Recreation Camp

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Statement of Significance
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Statement of Significance

The Lady Northcote Children's Farm School was an idealistic philanthropic institution enabling poor and orphaned British children to come to Australia "to equip themselves for life". The early Modem buildings were designed in 1936-7 by Percy Meldrum of Meldrum and Noad.

The Northcote Farm School is of regional historic significance as an extraordinary embodiment of philanthropic social values, applied to an agricultural setting. It demonstrates adaptation to a changing pattern of occupancy as it evolved to a recreation camp.

It is also architecturally significant as early Modernist design and the work of Meldrum, an important eclectic architect of the period, not afraid toturn his hand to Modernism.

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- LADY NORTHCOTE RECREATION CAMP - Victorian Heritage Register
- Physical Conditions
  
  Lady Northcote Recreation Camp - Physical Conditions
  
  Good
  
  Intactness
  
  Lady Northcote Recreation Camp - Intactness
  
  The main building has been altered over time, sympathetically. The cottages do not have apparent alterations.
  
  Physical Description 1
  
  Lady Northcote Recreation Camp - Physical Description 1
  
  The Camp consists of an arc of timber cottages, arranged around the entire hillside, above the main building below. There is a tennis court, golf course, farm animals and barn, and a memorial granite plinth in front of the main building.
  
  Each cottage is double-fronted and hip roofed; with the right being set forward and a verandah in the angle. Windows, including comers are double-hung and roof gutters are concealed behind fascias.
  
  Historical Australian Themes
  
  Lady Northcote Recreation Camp - Historical Australian Themes
  
  Agriculture
  
  Usage/Former Usage
  
  Lady Northcote Recreation Camp - Usage/Former Usage
  
  USE: Children's Recreation Camp
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Moorabool - Bacchus Marsh Heritage Study 1995
  
  Author: Richard Peterson and Daniel Catrice
  Year: 1995
  Grading:
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- Lady Northcote Recreation Camp
  
  Moorabool Shire
- 1 Fordham Court
  
  Yarra City
- 1) SWEENEY'S COTTAGE, 2) BARN, 3) GLASSHOUSE, 4) GOLDEN ASH TREE, 5) LEMON SCENTED GUM TREE, 6) PEAR TREE, 7) PINOAK TREES, 8) YELLOW BOX TREES, 9) OTHER MATURE PLANTING AND 10) GARDEN
  
  Nillumbik Shire
- 10 Fordham Court
  
  Yarra City