Pascoe Vale Police Station (former)
562 Bell Street, Pascoe Vale South VIC 3044 - Property No 42654
Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The former Pascoe Vale Police Station, at 562 Bell Street (corner Cumberland Road), Pascoe Vale South.
How is it significant?
The former Pascoe Vale Police Station, at 562 Bell Street (corner Cumberland Road), Pascoe Vale South is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.
Why is it significant?
(AHC Criterion A.4) Of historic significance, for its ability to aid in the demonstration of the development of Pascoe Vale South, and the increased need to provide such services to the local community. Also of historic significance as aformer police station, opened in 1945, representing a particularly early and thus significant marker of the post-war boom of settlement and development in Pascoe Vale South.
(AHC Criterion B.2) The building demonstrates a distinctive way of life that has been superseded in Melbourne's inner suburbs since the 1980s - the small local police station with staff residence attached.
(AHC Criterion D.2) The building demonstrates the principal characteristics of a distinctive building type - the small local police station with attached staff residence.
(AHC Criterion E.1) Of aesthetic significance, as a good example of post-war civic architecture in an area where few such examples exist. Also of aesthetic significance, the building is of interest as a domestically scaled government building displaying an unusual integration of Moderne and Georgian Revival details (eg. octagonal feature windows, rusticated quoining to porch corners).It occupies a prominent corner site and remains as a distinctive element in the streetscape. As a building developed by the office of Public Works architect Percy Everett, it has a high design aesthetic consistent with the quality of detail and motif found across all of Everett's work which itself is held in high regard by the architecture and design community.
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