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BUNYIP HALL
Main Street BUNYIP, Cardinia Shire
Bunyip Commercial and Civic Precinct

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Bunyip Hall
Bunyip Hall
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Statement of Significance

Bunyip Hall is of significance to the Cardinia Shire as a township landmark opened in 1942 on the site of the 1906 Mechanics Institute Public Hall. It has significance as an important community centre over many years, within a prosperous town which was then the largest in the Shire. The hall is an uncommon combination of building type, style and era within the Shire, a Greek Revival public hall.

Regional Significance

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    • Physical Description 1

      BUNYIP HALL - Physical Description 1

      This large gabled timber hall is distinguished by the projecting gabled porch with its Doric order colonnade. There has however been an unrelated brick toilet addition which has removed one of these columns. The roof is corrugated iron, the gable ends are clad with fibrous cement sheet with cover straps, as are the upper walls above the weatherboard dado.

      The doors are vertical boarded and ledge & braced and the windows to the earlier section, double hung. Highlight windows are used in other wings.

      The Greek revival styling of the hall was some 20 years behind the fashion but it nevertheless stands out in the study area.

      Physical Conditions

      BUNYIP HALL - Physical Conditions

      Given its staged development, the hall is externally near original but for the intrusive brick toilet addition at the front and the consequent removal of the porch column, and the overpainted brickwork.

      Historical Australian Themes

      BUNYIP HALL - Historical Australian Themes

      Themes

      8.4 Railway townships
      9.7 Other community meeting places

      Physical Description 2

      BUNYIP HALL - Physical Description 2

      Associations - Bunyip Mechanics Institute; Pakenham Shire

      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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