HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT PLAN Volume 1: the Report Final Draft Report October 2016

ATTACHMENT A ATTACHMENT A CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT PLAN HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT PLAN Volume 1: The Report Final draft report October 2016 Historic Houses Trust of NSW, incorporating Sydney Living Museums, cares for significant historic places, buildings, landscapes and collections. It is a statutory authority of, and principally funded by, the New South Wales State Government. Revision Table CMP Issue No. Issue Date Review- CLSP Issue A 15th June 2016 SJ, KD Issue B 29th August 2016 SJ, KD Issue C 21st October 2016 SJ, KD TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents Volume 1 Executive Summary 1-i The Brief 1-i Structure of the Report 1-ii The Place 1-ii Prècis of History of the Place 1-iii Cultural Significance of the Place 1-v Limitations 1-vi Authorship 1-vi 1. Introduction 1-1 1.1 Background to the Conservation Management Plan 1-1 1.2 Definition of the Place and Features 1-1 1.3 Heritage listings 1-6 1.4 Methodology 1-6 1.5 Terms and Abbreviations 1-6 1.6 Exclusions and Limitations 1-7 1.7 Author Identification 1-7 1.8 Acknowledgments 1-7 1.9 Copyright 1-8 1.10 Previous Reports 1-8 1.10 Management Plan Objectives 1-8 2. Historical Chronology of the Place 1-11 2.1 Introduction 1-11 2.2 Historical Context for the Hyde Park Barracks 1-13 2.3 Historical Chronology of the Hyde Park Barracks 1-22 3. Physical Evidence 1-83 3.1 Description of the Place Generally 1-83 3.2 Survey of the Principal Components 1-84 3.3 Context 1-90 3.4 Site Elements 1-98 3.5 The Buildings 1-113 3.6 Historic Period Archaeology 1-135 3.7 The Collection 1-142 3.8 History of Development 1-149 4. Analysis of Significance 1-163 4.1 Introduction 1-163 4.2 Identified Heritage Values 1-163 4.3 Reassessing Cultural Significance of HPB 1-174 Hyde Park Barracks Museum — Conservation Management Plan Volume 1 Final Report Issue C October 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS 4.4 Aspects of Significance 1-182 4.5 Comparative Analysis 1-189 5. Statement of Significance 1-209 5.1 Introduction 1-109 5.2 Statement of Cultural Significance 1-210 5.3 Summary Statement of Significance 1-216 5.4 Grades of Significance of the Principal Components of the Place 1-217 6. Constraints and Opportunities 1-229 6.1 Obligations and Opportunities Arising from Significance 1-229 6.2 Procedural Constraints arising from Significance 1-230 6.3 Constraints and Opportunities Generally 1-231 6.4 Constraints and Opportunities arising from Statutory Requirements 1-234 6.5 Non-Statutory Heritage Constraints 1-244 6.6 Australian Convict Sites Management 1-245 6.7 Owners Requirements 1-246 6.8 Existing Operational and Management Conditions 1-248 6.9 Other Interested Individuals and Groups 1-256 7. Conservation Policies 1-257 7.1 Development of Conservation Policies 1-257 7.2 Definition of Terms 1-258 7.3 Defining the Place 1-258 7.4 Conservation in Accordance with Significance 1-261 7.5 Management of the Place in Accordance with Significance 1-262 7.6 Care of the Fabric 1-265 7.7 Treatment of the Fabric 1-274 7.8 Interpretation of the Place 1-277 7.9 Use of Place 1-284 7.10 Intervention in the Fabric Identified to be Conserved 1-288 7.11 Adaptation of the Fabric Identified to be Conserved 1-291 7.12 Other New Features 1-300 7.13 Conservation Procedures and Practice 1-302 7.14 Adoption and Review of Conservation Policies 1-303 8. Implementation Plan 1-305 8.1 Implementation Plan 1-305 Hyde Park Barracks Museum — Conservation Management Plan Volume 1 Final Report Issue C October 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS Volume 2 Appendices Introduction 2-1 Appendix 1: Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance (The Burra Charter) 2-3 Appendix 2: World Heritage management principles 2-11 Appendix 3: National Heritage places 2-13 Appendix 4: Site Specific Exemptions 2-17 Appendix 5: Heritage Listings 2-19 Appendix 6: Aboriginal Heritage & History 2-21 Appendix 7: Historic Archaeology Evaluation 2-23 Appendix 8: Stakeholder Outcomes Report 2-25 Appendix 9: Bibliography 2-27 Volume 3 Fabric Survey of Built Components Introduction 3-1 Fabric Survey of the Built Components 3-1 Main Barracks Building 3-8 Building A 3-82 Building B 3-84 Building C 3-86 Building D 3-89 Building E 3-91 Building F 3-104 Building G 3-111 Building H 3-123 Building I 3-147 Hyde Park Barracks Museum — Conservation Management Plan Volume 1 Final Report Issue C October 2016 HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT PLAN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Hyde Park Barracks Museum Executive Summary The impressive duty of preserving the immigrants’ Barracks of Governor Macquarie lies in the fact that, in a century of subsequent efforts, the same degree of dignity and simplicity has not yet been accomplished with anything like such limited means and materials. Walter Burley Griffin, 21st June 19351 The Brief This report is a Conservation Management Plan (CMP) for Hyde Park Barracks, Queen’s Square, Macquarie Street, Sydney. Hyde Park Barracks (HPB) is widely recognised for its cultural significance. In 2010 it was one of 11 “Australian Convict Sites” inscribed on the World Heritage List of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The place is also listed on the National Heritage List, the NSW State Heritage Register and on the City of Sydney Council’s Local Environmental Plan. Hyde Park Barracks is managed as a museum by Sydney Living Museums (SLM), a statutory authority of the NSW Government operating under the Historic Houses Act 1980. Sydney Living Museums (SLM) has received Federal Government grant funding through the Protecting National Historic Sites Programme (PNHS) to facilitate revised interpretation and updated conservation management planning at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. SLM has the opportunity to revisit the heritage values of the place, undertake interpretation reviews and enhance visitor experience and engagement. The overall project includes audience research, a new conservation management plan, the revision of existing conservation management plans and museum plans and the development of enhanced and renewed site interpretation. This new CMP has been commissioned to guide Sydney Living Museums in the management of Hyde Park Barracks to ensure its best practice conservation as a World Heritage site. 1 Letters to the Editor: Sydney Morning Herald, Friday 21st June 1935, page 8 Hyde Park Barracks Museum — Conservation Management Plan Volume 1 Final Report, Issue C October 2016 1-i HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT PLAN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Structure of the Report This report has been prepared in a manner consistent with the Australian World Heritage management principles contained in Schedule 5 of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Regulations 2000 (EPBC Regulations) and the National Heritage management principles contained in Schedule 5B of the same. The CMP (Volumes 1, 2 and 3) has been developed in line with The Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance, The Burra Charter, 2013 (Burra Charter) and JS Kerr’s Conservation Plan (7th edition, Australia ICOMOS, 2013). The overall structure of the CMP consists of the following: Volume 1: The Report (this volume) a chronology of the history of the place (Section 2), the study of the built fabric, the setting, the archaeological deposits (Aboriginal and European) and assemblage of excavated artefacts (Section 3), an analysis of the heritage values of the place (Section 4) a Statement of Cultural Significance (Section 5). opportunities and constraints on the treatment and use of the place (Section 6) conservation policies (Section 7) implementation plan for the recommended conservation policies (Section 8) Volume 2: The Appendices Volume 3: The Fabric Survey All three volumes of the conservation management plan should be read in conjunction with each other, to form an understanding of the cultural significance of the Hyde Park Barracks. The Place Hyde Park Barracks is situated at the southern end of Macquarie Street, Sydney. It is bounded by Queen’s Square to the west, Prince Albert Road and the Registrar General’s Building to the south, the Land Title’s Office and Hospital Road to the east and the Mint complex to the north. Constructed in 1817-1819 as a convict barrack at the instigation of Governor Macquarie and to the design of Francis Greenway, the original complex comprised a central three-storey brick Barracks set in an open courtyard bounded by symmetrical ranges of buildings to the north and south, all enclosed within a stone perimeter wall and was designed to be seen in the round on three sides: from the government Domain to the east, from Hyde Park to south, and primarily from Queen’s Square to the west. Today, the place is comprised of the surviving original barracks building enclosed by a complex of buildings on its northern and eastern perimeters and stone perimeter walls on its western and southern sides, a diverse archaeological resource including stratified deposits throughout the complex and beyond its legal boundaries, as well as the extensive artefact assemblage managed by SLM. Hyde Park Barracks Museum — Conservation Management Plan Volume 1 Final Report, Issue C October 2016 1-ii HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT PLAN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since it was restored in the late 20th century, the Hyde Park Barracks has been open to the public as a museum. Précis of the History of Hyde Park Barracks Hyde Park Barracks was commissioned as part of a program of civic infrastructure works by Lachlan Macquarie, one of the early governors of the British penal colony in New South Wales.

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