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Brunswick Town Hall and Municipal Offices
233 Sydney Road, Brunswick VIC 3056 - Property No 38896

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Statement of Significance
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Statement of Significance

The Brunswick Municipal Offices and Hall is of local historical and architectural significance. Historically, the building is the municipal focus for Brunswick. It is a key building in the Sydney Road streetscape, and the use of the classical architectural idiom for the 1926 additions reflects the perceived appropriateness of this language for a major institutional building. Unlike Coburg's City Hall, Brunswick's sits close to the street, thus increasing its local landmark status.

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- Physical Description 1
  
  Brunswick Town Hall and Municipal Offices - Physical Description 1
  
  The Brunswick Municipal Offices and Hall is a complex of buildings at the corner of Sydney Road and Dawson Street, Brunswick. The main (1926) building, on this corner, two storey rendered brick building with an entrance portico and central three storey tower. The ground floor has rendered rustication and a moulded string course at the impost level of the arched windows. The first floor repeats the fenestration pattern, but the walls are of flat render, with paired pilasters with Corinthian capitals dividing the bays. The upper level windows have scallop-shell heads. The entrance portico has four stocky piers with banded rustication, above which sits a balustraded balcony. A triangular pediment marks the central bay of the first floor directly above the portico, and above this rises the tower section, which has a prominent corrugated iron mansard-styled roof. A clock protrudes from the tower's balustraded parapet.
  
  The 1994 office wing has a two storey red brick gabled facade surrounding a series of simple rendered columns. The main entrance is via a skillion-roofed rendered section with large glazed areas.
  The library (in Dawson Street) is a gable-roofed hall which has a high parapet to the foyer section. Walls are of rendered masonry, with a tall, narrow opening defined by rendered masonry fins. A second clock, matching the one of the Sydney Road facade, is cantilevered from the parapet.
  
  Key Architectural Elements: dominating two- and three-storey Classical Revival facades on north and east elevations
  rusticated ground floor
  balustraded parapet and distinctive mansard roofs
  Art Deco facade and elements of interior of Dawson Street hall, now the library
  
  Conservation Guidelines: preferably reinstate original colour scheme on library facade
  remove reflective coating from first floor windows
  
  Principal Historic Themes: association with local government
  association with individuals or families
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Moreland - Keeping Brunswick's heritage: A Report on the Review of the Brunswick Conservation Study
  
  Author: Context Pty Ltd
  Year: 1990
  Grading: Local
  
  Moreland - City of Moreland Heritage Review
  
  Author: Allen Lovell and Associates
  Year: 1999
  Grading:
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- INFANT BUILDING AND SHELTER SHED, PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.484
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H1709
- COTTAGE
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H0689
- GLENCAIRN
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H0375