UNDERSTANDING SOUTH AUSTRALIA S BUILT HERITAGE. Part 2

UNDERSTANDING SOUTH AUSTRALIA S BUILT HERITAGE Part 2

UNDERSTANDING SOUTH AUSTRALIA S BUILT HERITAGE Part 2 INFORMATION FOR TEACHERS prepared for the 2004 SCHOOLS HERITAGE COMPETITION (amended March 2006)

AN EXPLANATION In South Australia more than 2100 places are entered in the South Australian Heritage Register. This presentation highlights the variety of these places and illustrates the diversity of structures, sites and features which are South Australia s Built Heritage.

OUR BUILT HERITAGE IS DIVERSE Places entered in the South Australian Heritage Register are NOT just grand buildings, NOT just old buildings - in fact NOT just buildings! For example the State s built heritage includes Structures such as bridges, wells, jetties or memorials Sites such as gardens, mines, whaling stations or wineries Large and small dwellings and other buildings associated with transport, industry, agriculture or community life Some natural features, as well as significant geological, archaeological and palaeontological sites, are also entered in the South Australian Heritage Register.

BUILDINGS Nevertheless, many of the significant places entered in the South Australian Heritage Register are buildings, BUT they represent a mix of types, functions, ages and architectural styles. Slides 6-30 provide photographic examples which address the diversity of the State s heritage-listed buildings. Three main perspectives are considered contrasts in type of buildings and use representatives of everyday buildings examples of buildings which are less commonplace. (Heritage-listed places other than buildings are highlighted by slides 31-46)

Significant buildings can be grand Adelaide Railway Station or simple. Hope Cottage, Kingscote

They can be from the earliest days of settlement Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide (from 1838) or more recent. Adelaide Festival Centre (from 1973)

Some buildings are associated with well-known people, Sturt s House The Grange others represent everyday activities. Bonney Theatre, Barmera

Many heritagelisted buildings are still occupied, Roseworthy College while others have been abandoned. Kanyaka Homestead, north of Quorn

Some significant buildings have been adapted for reuse, many serve their original purpose, Adelaide Railway Station Casino Bowden Railway Station and a few have returned to prior use. Queen s Theatre, Adelaide

Heritage buildings can be part of an historic precinct, Petticoat Lane, Penola or overshadowed by modern development Former YWCA Building, Hindmarsh Square

A single building might be heritage-listed, Old Power House, Burra or a complex of buildings and structures. Quorn Railway Yards

Heritage buildings are government-owned, community-owned GPO & Treasury Buildings, Adelaide Kadina Town Hall & privately-owned Renmark Irrigation Trust Office

They are found in metropolitan areas Adelaide Children s Hospital (Angas Building) or rural settings. Thrush Grove Cottage, Clarendon

Many of the buildings entered in the South Australian Heritage Register represent the usual mix of activities and services in a community for example...

DWELLINGS House, Mitcham The Brocas, Woodville The Marines, Grange

PUBLIC UTILITIES Former Brompton Gasworks ETSA Converter Station, Adelaide

EMERGENCY SERVICES Former Redruth Police Station St Margaret s Hospital, Semaphore

COMMUNITY INSTITUTIONS Post and Telegraph Office, Robe State Bank, Mount Barker Kapunda Primary School Yatala Gaol

RELIGION Redruth Methodist Church Underground church, Coober Pedy Interior, underground church

TRANSPORT Burra Railway Station former MTT Offices, Hackney former Border Cliffs Customs House

INDUSTRY former Balm Paints factory, Port Adelaide former Menz Biscuit Factory, Adelaide Burra copper mine

COMMERCE Jens Hotel, Mount Gambier St Vincent Chambers, Port Adelaide Elder House, Adelaide

AGRICULTURE Beerenberg Barn, Hahndorf Newman s Nursery Site, Tea Tree Gully

Some of the buildings entered in the South Australian Heritage Register are less commonplace - descriptions such as unique or unusual often apply. for example...

an elephant house or Elephant House, Adelaide Zoo a 1920s bowling alley... 9-pin skittle alley, Tanunda

a woolshed, kiln or fort... Hynam Woolshed, near Naracoorte Fort Glanville, Semaphore Park Lime Kiln, Stansbury

a powder magazine, Magazine, Millicent Drainage Scheme an incinerator... Burley Griffin Incinerator, Hindmarsh

a lighthouse, a lockup... Troubridge Island Lighthouse Police Lockup, Whyalla

a grandstand, or even Grandstand, Clare Oval a straining shed! Sewerage Treatment Works, Islington

But remember, places entered in the South Australian Heritage Register are NOT all buildings. They include a variety of structures, sites and features representing South Australia s character. for example...

BRIDGES Kooringa Bridge, Burra Distillery Bridge, near Renmark Stone bridge, Coromandel Valley

MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS Soldiers Memorial Gates, Clare Flinders Monument, Stamford Hill near Port Lincoln Formby Fountain, Port Adelaide

WELLS Waterport Well, Port Elliot Nildottie Well

QUARRIES Delabole Slate Quarry Delabole Slate Quarry Warders Tower, Yatala Stone Quarry

CEMETERIES Burra Cemetery

TREES, GARDENS & PARKS Olive Plantation, Adelaide Herbig Family Tree, Old Gum Tree, Glenelg Beechwood Garden, Stirling Belair National Park

STONE WALLS Stone Wall, Truro

LANDSCAPES The Bluff, Victor Harbor

WHARVES & JETTIES Flying Fox Tunnel & Jetty, Cape de Couedic Morgan Wharf

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES Fowlers Bay Whaling Site

GEOLOGICAL SITES Pildappa Rock, Eyre Peninsula Blue Lake, Mount Gambier

TOWERS & CHIMNEYS Timeball Tower, Semaphore Pyap Chimney

MOUNTING STEPS Mounting Steps, Riverton & A SILENT COP Silent Cop, Balaklava

Shipwrecks are also part of South Australia s built heritage, and the responsibility of the Heritage Branch of the Department for Environment and Heritage.

There are more than 800 shipwrecks along South Australia s coastline and the River Murray. Santiago, North Arm, Port River Clan Ranald, Troubridge Hill Charles Carter, Kangaroo Island

For further information about South Australia s built heritage and the role of the Heritage Branch of the Department for Environment and Heritage contact Robyn Ashworth Senior Heritage Interpretation Officer (08) 8124 4957 For For a more detailed explanation of the role of the Heritage Branch For a more detailed explanation of the role of the Heritage Branch and of the criteria for entry in the South Australian Heritage Register view Part 1 of this PowerPoint presentation - Understanding South Australia s Built Heritage.