UPPER YARRA VALLEY & DANDENONC RANGES AUTHORITY • TECHNICAL REPORT SERIES REPC1RT l' JQ 17 1988 CONSERVATION OF SITES AND STRUCTURES OF HISTORICAL & ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE I\\ . ~ o C\ C\ 1-\ s::::L . u.~ ·- t<.. \?. \7 MPE LIBRARY lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll\1111 M0005014 •. CONSERVATION OF SITES AND STRUCTURES OF HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE IN THE UPPER YARRA VALLEY AND DANDENONG RANGES REGION NOVEMBER, 1988 "THIS REPORT HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR THE RE~INVESTIGATION OF THE. REGION PURSUANT TO THE UPPER YARRA VALLEY AND DANDENONG RANGES AUTHORITY ACT 1976 AND THE VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE VIEWS OF THE AUTHORITY" ( i) CONSERVATION OF SITES AND STRUCTURES OF HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE IN THE UPPER YARRA VALLEY AND DANDENONG RANGES REGION TABLE OF CONTENTS .., 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 1. 1 The Investigation 1 1.2 The Context 2 1.3 Report Con.tent 2 2.0 BACKGROUND TO CONSERVATION OF THE REGION'S HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT SITES AND STRUCTURES 4 2 .1 The 1978 Report 4 2.2 The Regional Strategy Plan 6 2.3 Planning Schemes 9 2.3.1 Situation in 1978 9 2.3.2 Shire of Sherbrooke Planning Scheme 1979 (Rural Areas) 9 :... · 2.3.3 Shire of Sherbrooke Planning Scheme 1979 (Urban Areas) 9 2.3.4 Shire of Sherbrooke Planning Scheme 1981 (Main Range) 10 2.3.5 Shire of Lillydale Planning Scheme 1958 · Am. No. l llA 10 2.3.6 Planning Schemes to Implement the Regional Strategy Plan 11 3.0 RECORD OF CONSERVATION OF HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT SITES AND STRUCTURES IN THE REGION 13 4.0 CHANGES SINCE 1978 IN LEGISLATION AFFECTING HISTORIC BUILDINGS 21 4.1 Introduction 21 4.2 Planning Schemes 21 4.3 Regional Strategy Plan 27 4.4 State Register Of Historic Buildings 27 4.5 State Register Of Government Buildings 30 s.o SITES AND STRUCTURES OF HISTORICAL AND/OR I ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE NOT IDENTIFIED IN THE 1978 STUDY 31 r_ 5 .1 Introduction 31 (ii) l 5.2 Research And Evaluatio~ Method Used In T~e Establishment Of The I.1ventory 31 5.3 Grading 31 \I 5.4 Inventory 32 SITES AND STRUCTURES O~ HIGH REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE Healesville Railway Station Ground, Buildings and Structures 35 Christmas Hills Primary School No. 1362 and Attached Residence 40 Uniting Church Hall (Former Mission Church), Healesville 42 "Long Acres" (Arthur· Streeton's Form~r House. and Studio), Olinda 45 "Talisman" (Tom Robertis Former House and Studio), Kallista 47 "Rose Charman's Cottage", Emerald 49 SITES AND STRUCTURES OF REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE ·•. Healesville Court House 51 "Mountain Views Office" and Manchester Shop, Healesville 53 Trestle Railway Bridge over Yarra River, Yarra Glen 55 "Luffra" (Former Healesville Bush Nursing Hospital) 57 Cranbrooke Lodge ("New Life for All" Conference Centre), Healesville 59 Former Mechanics' Institute, Healesville 62 Wooden Lockups at Healesville Police Station 64 Stone House, Cave Hill Road, Lilydale 66 "Lorna Doone", Sassafras 68 "Burnham Beeches", Sherbrooke 70 Horatio Jones House, Tecoma 72 Sanitarium Health Food Company and Signs Publishing Company Complex, Warburton 74 6.0 CONSERVATION OF SITES AND STRUCTURES OF HISTORICAL AND/OR ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE 76 6 .1 Introduction 76. (iii) 6.2 Detailed Provisions in Regional Section of Planning Schemes . 77 ·~· 6.3 Deiailed Provisions Placed in Local Section of Planning Schemes by Municipal Councils 77 ·.• 6.4 Detailed Provisions Placed in Local Section of Planning Schemes by the Authori~y 78 6.5 General Provisions in Regional Section of ~Planning Schemes 78 6.6 Incorporation of Provisions in the Regional Strategy plan 79 6.7 Sites and Structures Recommended for Designation in Planning Controls 79 6.8 Sites and Structures Recommended for Inclusion in the State Regist~r of Historic luildings or the Government Buildings Register 82 6.9 Public Involvement in Conservation 83 APPENDIX 1: ,• List of Historic Themes Used in the Evaluation of Sites and Structures.of Historical Significance in the Upper Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges Region · 85 APPENDIX 2: Sites and Structures of Regional Historical interest (Grade 3) SITES AND STRUCTURES OF REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE 86 APPENDIX 3: Suggested Clauses for Incorporation in Planning ·schemes within the Region. 90 APPENDIX 4: Sites and St~uctures of . Historical and/or Architectural . Significance which are recommended for inclusion in the Regional Strategy Plan and Planning Schemes within the Region. 92 BIBLIOGRAPHY. 96 . 1 . 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 THE INVESTIGATION This report contains the results of an investigatio~ of sites .. and structures of historical or architectural significance in the Upper Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges Region. The. investigation was predominantly undertaken between April and September 1987 and its objectives and the tasks involved are listed below. Study Objectives: 1. To review the sites and structures: of historical or architectural significance designated in the Regional Strategy Plan. 2. To identify and evaluate additional sites and structures of historical or architectural significance in a regional context. 3. To examine the effectiveness of policies in the Regional Strategy Plan to achieve the objective of providing for the long term conservation of identified sites and structures of historical or architectural significance. 4. To investigate the need for further protection measures for sites and structures of significance. Study Tasks: L To review avaiiable information relating to the identification and evaluation of known sites and structures of historical or architectural significance (particularly Tansley ( 1978) HThe Conservation of Sites and Structures of Historical and Archaeological Significance in the Upper Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges Region"). 2. To conduct field investigations and consider available information relating to the identification of sites or structures of historical or architectural interest within the Region. 3. To liaise with the Historic Buildings Council, Australian Heritage Commission, National Trust and .local historical societies .. 4. To review the rating of each known site or structure of significance, to rank any additional sites or structures of significance and specify. the criteria used in determining the. ranking. 5. To assess and describe, by written and photographic means, sites or .structures of significance which .are identified (i.e. in addition to those presently identified) and to · modify as necessary any existing t information. - 2 - 6. To determine the extent of implementation (and effects of implementation) of Regional Strategy Plan policies for conservation of sites of historical or architectural significance. 7. To supply draft guidelines for the conservation of identified sites or structures of significance. 1.2 THE CONTEXT This - report is essentially an up-date of Mark Tansley's 1978 report entitled "The Conservation of Sites and Structures of Historical and Archaeological Significance in the Upper Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges Region" (here-in-after referred to as the 1978 report). However this report is not concerned with sites of archaeological significance as they are the subject of a separate study (by Anutech Pty. Ltd.). It does include architecturally significant structures where these have been recognised by an expert authority (such as the Historic Buildings Council or National Tru~t): It was considered opportune to undertake a second comprehensive evaluation of the Region's historically significant sites and structures in 1987 because: 9 years had elapsed since the 1978 study; 5 years had passed since the Regional Strategy Plan was ·approved; and Section 21(2) of the Upper Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges Authority Act 1976 requires the Upper Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges Authority (here-in-after referred to as the Authority) to re-investigate the Region between 4 and 6 years after the approval of a Regional Strategy Plan for the Region and if necessary prepare and submit to the.Minister an amending Regional Strategy Plan. The need for such a review of sites and structures of historical significance was foreshadowed in the 1978 study which emphasised that "sites and structures identified in the inventory contained in this report.must not be regarded as an exhaustive listing of the potential historic and archaeological resources of the Region, but as an interim measure based on available information which should be added to and revised accordingly". (p.225) 1.3 REPORT CONTENT. The methodology used for this study is the same as that used for the 1978 study. Therefore to avoi.d repetition, refere·nce will be made to the relevant sections of the 1978 study in describing the base data and methodology for this study. The report has the following components: J a. Background to conservation of the Region's historically significant sites and structures; J - 3 - b. Record of conservation of significant sites and structures in the Region; 'c c. Changes since 1978 in legislation affecting historic buildings; d. Sites and structures of historical and/or architectural ~· significance not identified in the 1978 study; and e. Possible courses of action for the Upper Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges Authority to conserve. sites and structures of historical and/or architecturai significance in the Region. ....----- - --- - 4 • l I I 2.0 BACKGROUND TO CONSERVATION OF THE REGION'S HISTORICALLY I SIGNIFICANT SITES AND STRUCTURES. 2.1 THE 1978 REPORT. The 1978 study was the first comprehensive evaluation of historically significant structures and sites in the Region. It was designed to assist the Upper