COBURG NORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.4543
180 O'HEA STREET, COBURG, MORELAND CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
Coburg North Primary School No.4543 at 180 O'Hea Street Coburg, designed in 1937 by Percy Everett is significant.
Later classrooms, office and library buildings from the 1970s and 80s are not significant.
How is it significant?
Coburg North Primary School is of historic, architectural and social significance to Moreland City.
Why is it significant?
Coburg North Primary School, originally constructed in 1937 as an infant's school to nearby Pascoe Vale primary is historically significant as evidence of the separation of infant and primary education that informed much primary school building in the early twentieth century when infant schools were built as separate blocks within primary schools. It is socially significant as a school that was established following strong lobbying by the local community.(Criteria A & G)
As a late inter-war infant building Coburg North Primary is of architectural significance for its unusual and austere art deco design by the prominent architect and Chief of the Public Works Department from 1934 to 1953, Percy Everett. Coburg North Primary School demonstrates Everett's adherence to modernism combined with the neo-classical formality and decoration in the pre-cast panels. The building is a highly unusual design for a primary school and exhibits uncompromising austerity, unlike many of Everett's other designs which are quite dramatic formal modernist compositions. Despite some alterations to windows and doors, the building still exhibits strong architectural qualities. (Criteria B, E, F& H)
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COBURG NORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.4543 - Physical Description 1
Coburg North State School No.4543 is situated on a large site and comprises three main buildings of which the earliest was constructed in 1937. The 1937 cream brick building is an unusual and austere design that is planned in an 'L' shape with a distinctive angled entrance. A flat roof is concealed behind a parapet and the architecture is executed in an art deco style.
One of the building wings appears to have been extended with the addition of further classrooms that employ the traditional timber framed, glazed wall classroom design. This contrasts with the front of the building that has relatively small windows. Of interest is the decorative precast concrete panels in a neo-classical style that are regularly places at intervals across the front elevation. The art deco design extends to the high relief wrought iron lettering across the entrance doors. The windows and doors have been replaced with aluminium replicas of what were most likely to have been steel windows.
The other main buildings on the site were constructed during the 1970s and 80s and are not of interest.Heritage Study and Grading
Moreland - City of Moreland - North of Bell Street Heritage Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2013
Grading: Local
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