BARNARD STREET PRECINCT
BARNARD STREET, BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

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Statement of Significance
This precinct contains some of the study area's most prestigious houses, dominantly of the 19th and early 20th century era. Persons associated with them include successful mining speculators, such as Mueller and Lansell, and this century's industrial leaders in the Leggo family, both categones reflecting Bendigo's economic base pre and post World War One. The siting of the mining figures, in particular, away from their mine complexes is a departure from early precedents made by Lazarus and Lansell, who lived next to their mines, and marks the creation of Bendigo's early middle-class residential enclaves.
The study area's best designers (including Beebe and Vahland) were instrumental in the construction of many of these houses while the hillside siting of most of the major buildings in the precinct lends the visual diversity of viewpoint and individual building scale. Added to this are the distinctive curved street forms of Barkly Street and Terrace which echo the baroque plan of the commercial centre on the flat below. Close by but disconnected by intervening unrelated development are the two major benevolent institutions in the city, the hospital and the benevolent asylum and, further south is what was once Bendigo's most popular recreation centre, Rosalind Park and the Upper Reserve which was once an ornamental series of lakes and swimming baths but is now a series of sporting grounds. All of these adjacent historic sites lend context to the precinct.
Nevertheless they do contain some locally interesting streetscapes, individually significant buildings and groups of well-preserved housing from Bendigo's golden era. In the case of precinct 6.5, the terrain enhances views to structures and offers elevated sites for unusual complexes such as 14 Anderson Street with its notable garden wall enclosing the hilltop.
This precinct contains some of the study area's most prestigious houses, dominantly of the 19th and early 20th century era. Persons associated with them include successful mining speculators, such as Mueller and Lansell, and this century's industrial leaders in the Leggo family, both categones reflecting Bendigo's economic base pre and post World War One. The siting of the mining figures, in particular, away from their mine complexes is a departure from early precedents made by Lazarus and Lansell, who lived next to their mines, and marks the creation of Bendigo's early middle-class residential enclaves.
The study area's best designers (including Beebe and Vahland) were instrumental in the construction of many of these houses while the hillside siting of most of the major buildings in the precinct lends the visual diversity of viewpoint and individual building scale. Added to this are the distinctive curved street forms of Barkly Street and Terrace which echo the baroque plan of the commercial centre on the flat below. Close by but disconnected by intervening unrelated development are the two major benevolent institutions in the city, the hospital and the benevolent asylum and, further south is what was once Bendigo's most popular recreation centre, Rosalind Park and the Upper Reserve which was once an ornamental series of lakes and swimming baths but is now a series of sporting grounds. All of these adjacent historic sites lend context to the precinct.
Nevertheless they do contain some locally interesting streetscapes, individually significant buildings and groups of well-preserved housing from Bendigo's golden era. In the case of precinct 6.5, the terrain enhances views to structures and offers elevated sites for unusual complexes such as 14 Anderson Street with its notable garden wall enclosing the hilltop.
This precinct contains some of the study area's most prestigious houses, dominantly of the 19th and early 20th century era. Persons associated with them include successful mining speculators, such as Mueller and Lansell, and this century's industrial leaders in the Leggo family, both categones reflecting Bendigo's economic base pre and post World War One. The siting of the mining figures, in particular, away from their mine complexes is a departure from early precedents made by Lazarus and Lansell, who lived next to their mines, and marks the creation of Bendigo's early middle-class residential enclaves.
The study area's best designers (including Beebe and Vahland) were instrumental in the construction of many of these houses while the hillside siting of most of the major buildings in the precinct lends the visual diversity of viewpoint and individual building scale. Added to this are the distinctive curved street forms of Barkly Street and Terrace which echo the baroque plan of the commercial centre on the flat below. Close by but disconnected by intervening unrelated development are the two major benevolent institutions in the city, the hospital and the benevolent asylum and, further south is what was once Bendigo's most popular recreation centre, Rosalind Park and the Upper Reserve which was once an ornamental series of lakes and swimming baths but is now a series of sporting grounds. All of these adjacent historic sites lend context to the precinct.
Nevertheless they do contain some locally interesting streetscapes, individually significant buildings and groups of well-preserved housing from Bendigo's golden era. In the case of precinct 6.5, the terrain enhances views to structures and offers elevated sites for unusual complexes such as 14 Anderson Street with its notable garden wall enclosing the hilltop.
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BARNARD STREET PRECINCT - Physical Description 1
Former Precincts 6.02 , 6.04 , 6.05
In the west of the precinct are fine 19th, early 20th Century residential streetscapes in Forest and Wattle Streets, north of Barnard Street. Individually significant sites include numbers 113 (cI871), 116, 117, 119, 126, 128, Acacia Villa at 129-131, 133 and 140 Forest Street and, in Wattle Street, numbers 166, 167,169,174,179,182,184 and the former fuse factory at 193. As with View Streets, proximity to former gold working areas, at Ironbark Gully, signal a depletion of surviving built fabric from the past, making Langston Street the cut-off point on the north.
Physical characteristics resemble those for residential parts of Precinct 6.01: single-storey, pitched roof (iron or slate) detached villas constructed mainly from brick (rendered or face), picket front fencing.BARNARD STREET PRECINCT - Physical Description 2
Key Sites
Contributory Streets Precinct 6.2
Barkly
Barnard
Forest
Langston
Moore
Valentine
View
Wattle
Contributory Streets Precinct 6.4
Harrison
Milroy
Stevenson
View
Contributory Streets Precinct 6.5
Arnold
Drought
Flood
Frederick
Niemann
BARNARD STREET PRECINCT - Physical Description 3
Key Sites 6.02Thomas Scott House, 16 Bancroft Street, 1891
Catholic Convent of Mercy & St Mary's College, Barkly Street 1865-
Edward Boase House, 30 Barkly Street, 1873-4
Ernest Mueller House, 49 Barkly Street, 1909
William Vahland Residence, 52-58 Barkly Street 1858c-
Leonard Lansell's Lansellstowe, 60 Barkly Street 1913
Julius Cohn House (1867-Bendigo Post Office), 72 Barkly Street 1867
Adrian Mueller House, 83 Barkly Street 1914
Stuart's Kisbou Court, 93 Barkly Street 1869-?
Lachlan MacLachlan's Strachlachlan, later Lauriston, 80D Barkly Terrace, 1858-9
William Vahland and Jacob Cohn's Hustler's Terrace (part), 94 Barkly Terrace, 1874
Bendigo Benevolent Asylum, 100-104 Barkly Street 1859-
William Jones House (c1893-1907), 106 Barnard Street 1893
Warren's Park Terrace, 140-144 Barnard Street 1892
James Brierley's (1870-) Newington, 152-154 Barnard Street 1873-
George Sunderland's House, 166-168 Barnard Street 1893
Carl Mueller's Sandhurst Grammar School, 176 Barnard Street 1886
House & Surgery, 202- Barnard Street 1895C
John Wheaton's Hybla, 14A Forest Lane, 1873-4c
Alice Silwell's House, 117 Forest Street 1909
Annie Jackson's House (1904-1907), 126 Forest Street 1904
Robert Matchett's House (1908-1930), 128 Forest Street 1908
John Gleeson's House (c1901-30) 133 Forest Street 1901-
Norman De Ravin's House (1912-25), 134 Forest Street 1912
Lawrence Murphy's House, possibly Verona, 159 Forest Street 1909?
Rutherford House (c18931907), 173 Forest Street 1894
Wilkie House, 3 Langston Street 1901
John Fly's Cossackdale, 12-14 Langston Street 1865-96
Levy's Graylings 90 Moore Street 1924
William McKenzie's House (c1910-20), 96 Moore Street 1911C
Arthur Leggo's (1920-1935) Kalimaa, 98 Moore Street 1920
George Young's House (c1865-1889), 10 Valentine Street 1866-80
Karl Van Damme's Malmo, former 16 Valendtine Street 1898
John Martin's House (c1932-1940) 23 Valentine Street 1932
James Allan's Arran, 238 View street 1895
Charles Williams' Eurella, 247? View Street 1860
George Vibert's Denderah, 268 View Street 1888-
Hugh Esler's Banool, 282 View Street 1871
James Watt's House (c1866-1881) later Bendigo Rescue Home, 184? Wattle Street 1866-
Perry & Hunter's (1875-) Fuse Factory, 193-197 Wattle Street 1875-
Anthony Pattison's House, 201-203 Wattle Street 1925
Key Sites 6.044 Anderson Street 1860c
6 Anderson Street 1905c
8 Anderson Street 1890c
13 Anderson Street 1870c
The Linolds, House, Garden & Garden Wall 14 Anderson Street 1910c
Shop & Residence 15 Milroy Street 1905
Other Contributory Sites 6.042 Anderson Street 1925c
9 Anderson Street 1905c
11 Anderson Street 1870c
22 Harrison Street 1870c
23 Harrison Street 1935c
24 Harrison Street 1935c
27 Harrison Street1920c
29 Harrison Street 1925c
31 Harrison Street 1930c
33 Harrison Street 1880c
35 Harrison Street 1880c
37 Harrison Street 1920c
39 Harrison Street 1910c
41 Harrison Street 1910c
43 Harrison Street 1915c
9 Milroy Street 1905c
13 Milroy Street 1905c
19 Milroy Street 1905c
21 Milroy Street 1905c
23 Milroy Street 1925c
Key Sites 6.05169 Arnold Street 1905c
175 Arnold Street 1910c
184 Arnold Street 1910c
189 Arnold Street 1905c
192 Arnold Street 1910c
199 Arnold Street 1905c
20 Drought Street 1910c
4 Niemann Street 1910c
6 Niemann Street 1875c
8 Niemann Street 1910c
12 Niemann Street 1925c
Other Contributory Sites 6.05145 Arnold Street 1925c
147 Arnold Street 1925c
153 Arnold Street 1900c
157 Arnold Street 1905c
163 Arnold Street 1870c
165 Arnold Street 1870c
167 Arnold Street 1925c
173 Arnold Street 1910c
181 Arnold Street 1900c
183 Arnold Street 1900c
187 Arnold Street 1900c
188 Arnold Street 1900c
190 Arnold Street 1925c
192a Arnold Street 1905c
193 Arnold Street 1900c
195 Arnold Street 1935c
197 Arnold Street 1925c
28 Drought Street 1910c
30 Drought Street 1910c
36 Drought Street 1910c
40 Drought Street 1905c
46 Drought Street 1925c
56 Drought Street 1905c
58 Drought Street 1925c
64 Drought Street 1925c
1 Niemann Street 1910c
3 Niemann Street 1925c
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Bendigo - Eaglehawk & Bendigo Heritage Study
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 1993
Grading:
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ANNE CAUDLE CENTRE, BENDIGO BENEVOLENT ASYLUM AND LYING-IN HOSPITALVictorian Heritage Register H0992
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BENDIGO TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0117
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SPECIMEN COTTAGEVictorian Heritage Register H1615
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"1890"Yarra City
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"AMF Officers" ShedMoorabool Shire
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"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
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'CARINYA' LADSONS STOREVictorian Heritage Register H0568
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1 Alexander StreetYarra City
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1 Botherambo StreetYarra City
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