Facade of Daylesford & District Museum erected 1914, formerly School of Mines and Technical School established 1890. Victoria Australia
Daylesford District Museum formerly School of Mines and Technical School established 1890.
Vincent Street façade of The Technical School Addition designed by architect F A Horsfall and built by G Clayfield forms the street facing frontage of the school. It is a simple red brick structure with rendered horizontal bands, lintels and sills, and a capping to its parapet: built 1914.
The Technical School Addition provides classrooms that support or supplement the older buildings and demonstrates the further expansion of the technical and high school curriculum in the twentieth century.
The Daylesford School of Mines comprises the Laboratory Building with Chimney and the Art Department Building dating from 1890, and the Technical School Addition of 1914. Both the Laboratory Building with Chimney and Art Department Building were designed by architects Figgis and Molloy and built by John Patterson. The Laboratory Building contains the metallurgical laboratory and the chemical laboratory. Each laboratory has a hipped corrugated iron roof with lantern providing daylight. The metallurgical laboratory is particularly intact with unplastered walls, furnaces, fume cupboards, and a part flagstone floor. It is serviced by a substantial, tapered brick, dichromatic chimney with bracketed capping on its western wall. The chimney is a fine example of its type and a landmark in Daylesford. The Art Department Building features a slate mansard roof, and a corrugated steel skillion roof which enable daylight to be provided to the interiors through banks of timber framed windows that project into the mansard, and through glazed roof bays.
Ref: Victorian Heritage Database
Facade of Daylesford & District Museum erected 1914, formerly School of Mines and Technical School established 1890. Victoria Australia
Daylesford District Museum formerly School of Mines and Technical School established 1890.
Vincent Street façade of The Technical School Addition designed by architect F A Horsfall and built by G Clayfield forms the street facing frontage of the school. It is a simple red brick structure with rendered horizontal bands, lintels and sills, and a capping to its parapet: built 1914.
The Technical School Addition provides classrooms that support or supplement the older buildings and demonstrates the further expansion of the technical and high school curriculum in the twentieth century.
The Daylesford School of Mines comprises the Laboratory Building with Chimney and the Art Department Building dating from 1890, and the Technical School Addition of 1914. Both the Laboratory Building with Chimney and Art Department Building were designed by architects Figgis and Molloy and built by John Patterson. The Laboratory Building contains the metallurgical laboratory and the chemical laboratory. Each laboratory has a hipped corrugated iron roof with lantern providing daylight. The metallurgical laboratory is particularly intact with unplastered walls, furnaces, fume cupboards, and a part flagstone floor. It is serviced by a substantial, tapered brick, dichromatic chimney with bracketed capping on its western wall. The chimney is a fine example of its type and a landmark in Daylesford. The Art Department Building features a slate mansard roof, and a corrugated steel skillion roof which enable daylight to be provided to the interiors through banks of timber framed windows that project into the mansard, and through glazed roof bays.
Ref: Victorian Heritage Database