Redan State School No. 1289
32-48 HERTFORD STREET, SEBASTOPOL - PROPERTY NUMBER 2014800, BALLARAT CITY
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Statement of Significance
The Jubilee Gates, to the extent of their 1934 fabric.
Mature trees of significance include a Chamaecyparis lawsoniana (Lawson's Cypress) planted to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and mature Ash trees that line the entrance path.
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Redan State School No. 1289 - Physical Description 1
The former Redan State (now Primary) School No 1289, constructed in 1873-74, faces Alfred Street near the corner of Hertford Street. On the south side of the building is a garden, containing mature trees, with the Jubilee gates of 1934 at the corner.
School
The building is H-shaped in plan, constructed in red brick with cream brick details, on a rock-faced basalt foundation. Apart from the use of bichrome brick, other striking details include jerkin-head gables with decorative bargeboards to the front arms of the 'H', and a projecting rooflet over the school bell at the centre of the facade.
The facade comprises the two projecting arms (with jerkin heads) flanking a long gabled section set back behind them. At the centre is a small projecting gabled roof, supported on triangular brackets with turned pendants, which shelters the school bell. Beneath the bell is a circular louvered vent and the school's name in raised lettering. The same circular vent motif is repeated on the projecting jerkin-head wings. Windows have an unusually shaped flat-arch lintel of cream brick with a red brick keystone at the top, while the sills are basalt (overpainted). The lintels and sills are in line with horizontal cream-brick bands. The windows are six-over-six double-hung sashes.
The north and south elevations each have a central 'dormers' continuous with the wall, beneath a small gable with decorative bargeboard. Instead of a dormer window they have a circular louvered vent. The bichrome brick decoration is continued, with the flat-arched lintels and cream-brick bands at the top and bottom of the windows (six-over-six sashes). The north elevation retains all five of its original windows, while the south has only two.
The rear elevation is much simpler in its details. The projecting bays have standard gables with plain bargeboards. Bichrome brickwork is still used, though the flat-arched lintels are of a standard type. The projecting bays retain two each original six-over-six sash windows, while another two survive on the long central section (the others having been enlarged).
Alterations to the 1873-74 school building include the following. The replacement of the original sash windows on the south and rear elevations with banks of larger six-over-six double-hung sashes plus highlights. The flat-arched lintels were removed and replaced with a concrete beam, while the window sills were lowered. The three windows in the south jerkin-head wing of the facade also had highlights added and sills lower, but the brick flat arches were retained. The window replacement may have been the 'external renovations' carried out in 1936.
In more recent times, a number of windows have been converted to doorways. This is true of the present school entrance on the facade. Two windows beneath the bell tower were replaced with a large highlight and double glazed doors, leaving only the two lintels intact. In addition, on the north side elevation, a new doorway was created between two windows.
The original chimneys have all been replaced with a very simple, interwar type. This may have been done at the same time heating stoves were installed in 1947.
The original slate roof was replaced with the present galvanised iron cladding in 1963. Happily the decorative cast-zinc finials to the jerkin-head gables and bell tower were retained.
Jubilee gates
The Jubilee gates of 1934 are situated at the corner of Hertford and Alfred streets, on a diagonal. They comprises two tall central gate posts and two outer piers linked by a low wall, all in tuckpointed clinker brick with chamfered red bricks at the tops. The gates and infill panels on either side are a simple design in mild steel with circular motifs. Resting atop the gate posts is a concrete 'beam' with shaped ends. Raised lettering reads: 'Erected by Redan Old Scholars, 1874-1934'.
The pathway from the gates to the entrance of the school has two mature Fraxinus sp. Ash Trees, and two smaller specimens arranged symmetrically along each side of the pathway. A mature Lawson's Cypress is also located in the grounds of the school.
Heritage Study and Grading
Ballarat - Sebastopol Heritage Study (Stage 2)
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2015
Grading: Local
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