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BUNYIP FIRE STATION
13 Pearson Street BUNYIP, Cardinia Shire

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Cardinia Shire

Bunyip Fire Station

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Statement of Significance
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Statement of Significance

Bunyip Fire Station is significant to the Cardinia Shire as a 1958 utility building designed in the Modernist manner, being avant-garde for the period and the building type. The building also helps provide evidence of the development of Bunyip as a service centre and railway town in the Shire.

Regional Significance

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- Physical Description 1
  
  BUNYIP FIRE STATION - Physical Description 1
  
  This fire station is Modern in style but, with its butterfly roof it goes beyond the purely utilitarian designs often applied to this type of building. The main doors are glazed, the walls are metal clad and exposed open web trusses and tapered rafters support the roof.
  
  Physical Conditions
  
  BUNYIP FIRE STATION - Physical Conditions
  
  The building is generally externally original.
  
  Historical Australian Themes
  
  BUNYIP FIRE STATION - Historical Australian Themes
  
  Themes
  
  8.4 Railway townships
  9.5 Fire Brigade centres
  
  Physical Description 2
  
  BUNYIP FIRE STATION - Physical Description 2
  
  Associations - Country Fire Brigade Board
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Cardinia - Cardinia Shire Heritage Study 1996
  
  Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
  Year: 1996
  Grading: Local
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- BUNYIP RAILWAY SUB STATION
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H2025
- BUNYIP POST OFFICE
  
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- RAILWAY HOTEL (FORMER)
  
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