Gayndah timber Courthouse Queensland Heritage Register listed – Sir Harry Gibbs Legal Heritage Centre, opened 1929. Queensland Australia
Gayndah Courthouse – Sir Harry Gibbs Legal Heritage Centre.
The Queensland Heritage Register listed timber Gayndah Courthouse was built in 1928 and opened January 1929, designed by the Queensland Department of Public Works.
The Courthouse is a single-storeyed timber building with a hipped corrugated-iron roof and two projecting gables. A verandah runs along the front of the building between the gables. The gables have bell-cast timber-boarded sun hoods over the windows. The large central ventilator on the roof is the dominant decorative element of the building. The exterior of the courthouse is reasonably intact, except for metal louvres enclosing the verandahs.
Gayndah Courthouse is a typical example of the work of the Public Works Department and is a continuation of the tradition of timber court houses in Queensland country towns, adapting to civic function vernacular elements and materials common to domestic buildings. The building has a T-shaped plan, with offices along the front and the court room at the rear. The building replaces an earlier one of 1861.
References: POI-Australia: State Library of Queensland.
The earliest records for the original Courthouse date to 1861. This first structure was located near the police station on a site adjacent to the former hospital grounds. By 1910 the building was insufficient and isolated for the population. It was not until 1927 that building plans for a new Courthouse were prepared and construction finished in 1928.The building also accommodated Police Magistrates, the Land Commissioner and Land Rangers, the Clerk of Petty Sessions and public officers, the Dairy Inspector, the Agricultural Bank as well as storerooms. The exterior is well equipped and the building is listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.
Reference: Queensland Heritage Register.
Gayndah timber Courthouse Queensland Heritage Register listed – Sir Harry Gibbs Legal Heritage Centre, opened 1929. Queensland Australia
Gayndah Courthouse – Sir Harry Gibbs Legal Heritage Centre.
The Queensland Heritage Register listed timber Gayndah Courthouse was built in 1928 and opened January 1929, designed by the Queensland Department of Public Works.
The Courthouse is a single-storeyed timber building with a hipped corrugated-iron roof and two projecting gables. A verandah runs along the front of the building between the gables. The gables have bell-cast timber-boarded sun hoods over the windows. The large central ventilator on the roof is the dominant decorative element of the building. The exterior of the courthouse is reasonably intact, except for metal louvres enclosing the verandahs.
Gayndah Courthouse is a typical example of the work of the Public Works Department and is a continuation of the tradition of timber court houses in Queensland country towns, adapting to civic function vernacular elements and materials common to domestic buildings. The building has a T-shaped plan, with offices along the front and the court room at the rear. The building replaces an earlier one of 1861.
References: POI-Australia: State Library of Queensland.
The earliest records for the original Courthouse date to 1861. This first structure was located near the police station on a site adjacent to the former hospital grounds. By 1910 the building was insufficient and isolated for the population. It was not until 1927 that building plans for a new Courthouse were prepared and construction finished in 1928.The building also accommodated Police Magistrates, the Land Commissioner and Land Rangers, the Clerk of Petty Sessions and public officers, the Dairy Inspector, the Agricultural Bank as well as storerooms. The exterior is well equipped and the building is listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.
Reference: Queensland Heritage Register.