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  • ALEXANDRA COURT HOUSE AND FORMER SHIRE OFFICES

    38A DOWNEY STREET ALEXANDRA, MURRINDINDI SHIRE

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H1654
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    The public offices at Alexandra are architecturally significant as an uncommon example of public works architecture, which incorporates a post office, shire offices and courthouse into a…

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  • ARARAT COURT HOUSE

    63-75 BARKLY STREET ARARAT, ARARAT RURAL CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H1657
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    Completed in 1866-67, Ararat Court House is a small, symmetrical brick building designed by Public Works Department architect Gustav Joachimi in the Victorian Free Classical style with a…

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  • FORMER ARARAT GAOL

    1-7 GIRDLESTONE STREET ARARAT, ARARAT RURAL CITY

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    VHR H1067
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    J Ward was built in 1860-63 as the Ararat Gaol, to a design based on the Pentonville concept by the Public Works Department. It was run as a Gaol until 1886. In 1887, after alterations, the…

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  • FORMER AVOCA COURT HOUSE

    85 HIGH STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE

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    VHR H1460
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    The Avoca Court House is a small, single-storey brick structure built in 1858-59 in response to rapid and substantial population growth generated by the rush for alluvial gold in Avoca in…

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  • LOCK-UP

    6 DAVEY STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE

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    VHR H1660
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    Lock-up, Avoca, forms part of a complex including a court house, police magazine and residence. The lock-up was constructed in 1867, presumably to the designs of the public works department…

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  • FORMER POLICE RESIDENCE

    6 DAVEY STREET AVOCA, PYRENEES SHIRE

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    VHR H1661
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    The Former Police Residence, Avoca, built in 1859, is part of a larger justice precinct designed by the Public Works Department and includes the court house (1859), powder magazine (1860) and…

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  • COURT HOUSE

    123 MAIN STREET BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE

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    VHR H1461
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    The Bacchus Marsh Court House was built in 1858-59. It was designed by Samuel White of the Public Works Department. White was employed as a draftsman with the Public Works Department from…

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  • POLICE STATION AND OLD LOCK-UP

    119 MAIN STREET BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE

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    VHR H1546
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    This sandstone lock-up was built in 1857 by the P.W.D. A simple 2 cell rectangular building built of local sandstone. This masonry is unusual in being finished to a fair face and then picked…

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  • BALMORAL COURT HOUSE

    35 GLENDINNING STREET BALMORAL, SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

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    VHR H1651
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    The Balmoral Court house was designed by Alfred T Snow and built by the Public Works Department in 1876. It is a weatherboard building with a gabled roof of corrugated galvanized iron and…

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  • BEECHWORTH JUSTICE PRECINCT

    FORD STREET WILLIAMS STREET HIGH STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

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    VHR H1464
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    Gold was discovered at Beechworth in 1852 and the township of Beechworth was proclaimed on 1 July 1853. On 23 August 1856 the Municipal District of Beechworth was proclaimed and the first…

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  • FORMER BEECHWORTH GAOL

    REFORMATORY RESERVE, WILLIAMS STREET BEECHWORTH, INDIGO SHIRE

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    VHR H1549
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    The Former Beechworth Gaol, including: the perimeter walls and watch towers, the entrance gateways and iron gates; the gaolers quarters and turnkeys quarters on either side of the entrance;…

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  • FORMER BENDIGO GAOL

    10-20 GAOL ROAD BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

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    VHR H1550
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    Bendigo Prison Complex was built as Sandhurst Gaol in 1861-64 on a hill overlooking the town. Designed on the panopticon principle by Samuel Wright and C.G. Ross of Victoria's Public Works…

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  • OLD POLICE BARRACKS

    40 GAOL ROAD BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

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    VHR H0545
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    The Former Bendigo Police Barracks, Rosalind Park, were erected in 1860 by the public works department. The architect responsible was AT Snow and the contractor was J Robertson. The building…

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  • FORMER SUPREME COURT, BENDIGO

    10-20 GAOL ROAD BENDIGO, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

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    VHR H1465
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    The Former Supreme Court, Bendigo constructed in 1857-58 by the Public Works Department for the Crown Law Department, including a single-storey sandstone Court building designed in a…

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  • BRIGHT COURT HOUSE AND LOCKUP

    1-3 PARK STREET BRIGHT, ALPINE SHIRE

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    VHR H1921
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    Bright Court House is a single storey brick building constructed as a court of petty sessions for the Buckland goldfields in 1861 to a design by the Public Works Department architect JJ…

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  • POLICE STATION

    334-344 DRUMMOND STREET CARLTON, MELBOURNE CITY

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    VHR H1543
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    Carlton Police Station was designed by Public Works Department architects William Steel and George Watson and erected in 1878 by contractor William Smith. It is a two storey brick building…

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  • FORMER CASTLEMAINE GAOL

    36-48 BOWDEN STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

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    VHR H0990
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    HM Prison, Castlemaine was constructed of local sandstone between 1857 and 1861. It represents an important phase in the development of prison design associated with the completion of the…

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  • BROADOAKS

    31 GINGELL STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

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    VHR H0670
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    Broadoaks, 31 Gingell Street, Castlemaine is a single storey house erected in 1854 as the district police inspector's residence, the architect being CD Balmain. The house is asymmetrically…

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  • FORMER CASTLEMAINE COURT HOUSE

    7 GOLDSMITH CRESCENT CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

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    VHR H1682
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    The enormous influx of people to the Victorian central goldfields in the 1850s resulted in the rapid establishment of law enforcement instrumentalities and the erection of many public…

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  • CASTLEMAINE COURT HOUSE

    29 LYTTLETON STREET CASTLEMAINE, MOUNT ALEXANDER SHIRE

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    VHR H1405
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    The first court building on this site was built in 1858. Previously courts had operated from the old Courthouse in the Commissioners Camp. This courthouse was similar to the courthouse at…

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  • COTTAGE

    82 BELL STREET COBURG, MORELAND CITY

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H0689
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    This well-preserved double-fronted bluestone cottage built in 1864 for James Smith, a prison warder, which one formed part of a group of seven stone and timber cottages in that street owned…

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  • HM PRISON PENTRIDGE

    CHAMP STREET AND MURRAY ROAD AND URQUHART STREET AND PENTRIDGE BOULEVARD AND WARDENS WALK AND SENTRY LANE AND INDUSTRY LANE AND STOCKADE AVENUE AND VIA ROMA COBURG, MORELAND CITY

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    VHR H1551
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    The former HM Pentridge Prison was established in December 1850. The structures remaining from the prison consist of A Division, B Division, B Division Annexe (former kitchen), D Division…

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  • COURT HOUSE, FORMER POLICE QUARTERS AND LOCK-UP

    13 CAMP STREET DAYLESFORD, HEPBURN SHIRE

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H1492
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    The Former Daylesford police quarters and cell block are located uphill from the prominently sited courthouse (1862). Built in 1858, the single-storey quarters are constructed of rendered…

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  • LOCK-UP

    67-69 PARKER STREET DUNKELD, SOUTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H1535
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    The Lock Up, Dunkeld is a two celled bluestone building with a corrugated iron gabled roof that may have been constructed c.1860s. The building forms part of an early police complex which…

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  • DUNOLLY COURT HOUSE

    44 MARKET STREET DUNOLLY, CENTRAL GOLDFIELDS SHIRE

    Victorian Heritage Register

    VHR H1468
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    The Dunolly Court House was built in the market square in 1862 as the Dunolly Municipal Chambers, to designs by Charles Toutcher of Maryborough. It was used for this purpose until deemed too…

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