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LEONGATHA SHOWGROUNDS GRANDSTAND
48-60 ROUGHEAD STREET, LEONGATHA, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE

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Leongatha Showgrounds Grandstand
Leongatha Showgrounds Grandstand
Leongatha Showgrounds Grandstand
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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Leongatha Showgrounds grandstand, designed by T.E. Molloy and constructed by Neil Falconer in 1922, Roughead Street, Leongatha.

Why is it significant?
The Leongatha Showgrounds grandstand is of local historic and aesthetic significance to South Gippsland Shire.

Historically, it is the oldest extant grandstand in the Shire and demonstrates the importance of the showgrounds to the local agricultural and sporting community. (AHC criteria - A.4 and D.2)

Aesthetically, the grandstand enhances the appearance of the Leongatha Showgrounds and Recreation reserve. It is also of interest as an example of the work of locally important architect, T.E. Molloy. (AHC criterion - E.1)

Technically, it is of interest as one of the first and most substantial buildings in the Shire to be constructed from locally made bricks manufactured at Koonwarra. (AHC criterion - F.1)

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    • Physical Description 1

      LEONGATHA SHOWGROUNDS GRANDSTAND - Physical Description 1

      The Leongatha Showgrounds Grandstand is a typical form of grandstand building with tiered seating over the changing rooms, which form a brick base to the structure. The hipped roof with ridge gablets is carried on steel rolled steel posts at the front of the structure which support steel trusses carried to the high brick wall at the rear. The roof plane is carried down further to form wide overhangs to the front and sides. The brick base has stepped sides with piers projecting above the deck to support horizontal sections of timber balustrade.

      The building is set behind a bank sloping down to the oval which is bridged by three sets of steel steps leading to the bank. A later flat roofed addition is built up to the rear of the grandstand and the underside, which was originally semi-open, has been extended to provide social clubrooms and other facilties. It was originally designed to have a capacity of 1000 seated and 500 standing.

      To the north of the grandstand is a brick kiosk with a wide eaved hip roof.

      The 1951 wrought iron entry gates with rendered brick piers on Roughead Street is also of significance.

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      South Gippsland - South Gippsland Heritage Study

      Author: David Helms with Trevor Westmore
      Year: 2004
      Grading:

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