Coimadai Primary School. No.716

86 Bennetts Lane COIMADAI, MOORABOOL SHIRE

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Coimadai Primary School. No.716

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  • Physical Conditions

    Coimadai Primary School. No.716 - Physical Conditions

    CONDITIONS & THREATS: Very good. There is cracking in the north corners, (due to overflow tank water?)

    Landscape. Some ofthe trees would need tree surgery to protect them from rot at a future stage.

    Intactness

    Coimadai Primary School. No.716 - Intactness

    Good. The classroom lack finials. Spouting has been replaced. The north gable end window has been replicated adjacent with a concrete lintel. There are two recent timber additions, the north side ofthe sheltershed is infilled to enable use as a room. All brickwork is painted.

    Physical Description 1

    Coimadai Primary School. No.716 - Physical Description 1

    A brick 60-type Common School, a standard Common Schools Board design for 60 pupils. This has a gable-roof and porch facing, with a later timber skillion extension at the rear, around the angle. There are at least six 12-pane double-hung sash windows, with rock face stone ellis and a chimney with a pot. The spouting extends across the gable end of the door as if the base of a pediment. There are cast-iron wall vents (probably connected to Tobin tubes), gable-end timber vents, Kemp and Sheehan conical roof vents and later terra-cotta sub-floor vents. The base is probably random rubble stone, rendered. There is a centenary plaque fixed to the chimney and a comer stone incised with: "F.P. Tower, Builder".10 There are four tanks on stands. There is a gable-roofed Edwardian timber shelter shed, with a decorative scallop ed timber barge-board, flagpole-profile finials on both gable ends, and decorative timber bracket s to gables. There are two double-hung sash windows.

    There is an avenue of nine Eucalypts on the front boundary with a chain-link fence with a capping and an earlier woven crimp-wire pedestrian gate. There is some hexagonal pre-cast concrete paving.

    Landscape. A bush school set among stands of Grey Box and Yellow Gum, the elevated site is surrounded by stands of Sugar Gums which have been pollarded over the years. The line nine Sugar Gums to the north of the buildings have been placed to form a windbreak and to provide shelter for the buildings. Newer plantings have taken place around the school buildings as part of the development of the amphitheatre.

    Historical Australian Themes

    Coimadai Primary School. No.716 - Historical Australian Themes

    Townships / Governing / Cornmunity life.

    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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