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HERITAGE MANAGEMENT PLAN ABC PRODUCTION SUPPORT FACILITIES 2-16 Selwyn Street ELSTERNWICK VIC 3185 23 DECEMBER 2016
NBRS & PARTNERS Pty Ltd Level 3, 4 Glen Street Milsons Point NSW 2061 Australia Telephone +61 2 9922 2344 - Facsimile +61 2 9922 1308 ABN: 16 002 247 565 Nominated Architects Geoffrey Deane: Reg No. 3766; Andrew Duffin: Reg No. 5602; Garry Hoddinett: Reg No 5286 This report has been prepared under the guidance of the Expert Witness Code of Conduct in the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules and the provisions relating to expert evidence This document remains the property of NBRS & PARTNERS Pty Ltd. The document may only be used for the purposes for which it was produced. Unauthorised use of the document in any form whatsoever is prohibited. ISSUED REVIEW ISSUED BY 18 November 2016 Draft Pamela Jeffery 23 December 2016 Final SP 9 January 2017 Final amended Pamela Jeffery
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
NBRSArchitecture was commissioned in November 2016, by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation -
Property Services Section (ABC Property), to determine the Commonwealth Heritage values of the site
located at 2-16 Selwyn Street, Elsternwick VIC 3185.
Under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act), as amended, the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is obliged to identify and protect any Commonwealth Heritage
values demonstrated by buildings in its ownership, and to ensure the protection of those values during and
following divestment of the site.
The methodology adopted throughout this report follow the best-practice principles contained in:
The Conservation Plan by Dr James Semple Kerr (7th edition, 2013) published by the National Trust
of Australia (NSW).
Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Significance (The Burra Charter) 2013.
Management Plans for Places on the Commonwealth Heritage List: a guide for agencies. Australian
Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, November 2006.
The following table indicates which section of this Heritage Management Plan addresses the specific
requirements of Schedule 7A (Regulation 10.03B) of the EPBC Act:
Requirement Compliance
reference
(a) establish objectives for the identification, protection, conservation, presentation Complies:
and transmission of the Commonwealth Heritage values of the place; and Sections 1.3, 4.0
& 6.0
(b) provide a management framework that includes reference to any statutory Complies:
requirements and agency mechanisms for the protection of the Commonwealth Sections 5.0 &
Heritage values of the place; and 6.0
(c) provide a comprehensive description of the place, including information about its Complies:
location, physical features, condition, historical context and current uses; and Sections 2.0 &
3.0
(d) provide a description of the Commonwealth Heritage values and any other Complies:
heritage values of the place; and Section 4.0
(e) describe the condition of the Commonwealth Heritage values of the place; and Complies:
Sections 3.0
(f) describe the method used to assess the Commonwealth Heritage values of the Complies:
place; and Sections 1.4 &
4.0
(g) describe the current management requirements and goals, including proposals Complies:
for change and any potential pressures on the Commonwealth Heritage values of Section 5.0
the place; and
(h) have policies to manage the Commonwealth Heritage values of a place, and Complies:
include in those policies, guidance in relation to the following: Section 6.0
(i) the management and conservation processes to be used; Complies:
Section 6.0
(ii) the access and security arrangements, including access to the area for Not considered
indigenous people to maintain cultural traditions; specifically
applicable to the
place with
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respect to its
significance.
(iii) the stakeholder and community consultation and liaison arrangements; Complies:
Section 6.3.19
(iv) the policies and protocols to ensure that indigenous people participate Not applicable
in the management process;
(v) the protocols for the management of sensitive information; Not applicable.
(vi) the planning and management of works, development, adaptive reuse Complies:
and property divestment proposals; Section 7.0
(vii) how unforeseen discoveries or disturbance of heritage are to be Complies:
managed; Section 7.0
(viii) how, and under what circumstances heritage advice is to be obtained; Complies:
Section 7.0
(ix) how the condition of Commonwealth Heritage values is to be monitored Complies:
and reported; Section 7.0
(x) how records of intervention and maintenance of a heritage places Complies:
register are kept; Section 6.3.20
(xi) the research, training and resources needed to improve management; Not applicable
(xii) how heritage values are to be interpreted and promoted; and Complies:
Section 6.3.17
(i) include an implementation plan; and Complies:
Section 7.0
(j) show how the implementation of policies will be monitored; and Complies:
Section 7.1
(k) show how the management plan will be reviewed. Complies:
Section 7.3
Major Recommendations
This Heritage Management Plan concludes:
The former Elsternwick Fire Station building, located at 2-4 Selwyn Street, Elsternwick VIC 3185,
demonstrates Commonwealth Heritage values at local and state levels, and meets the threshold
for listing as a heritage item on the Commonwealth Heritage List. The former fire station has high
heritage significance as one of thirty-two fire station buildings commissioned between 1892 and
1896 by the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Board to accommodate fire brigades formed under the Fire
Brigades Act 1890.
The former Elsternwick Fire Station building is one of two extant fire station buildings out of a
total of three designed by the architect, John Thomas Kelleher of the Victorian Public Works
Department for the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Board.
The remainder of the site, located at 6-16 Selwyn Street, Elsternwick, does not demonstrate
Commonwealth Heritage values at a level to warrant listing on any local, state or national heritage
register.
Major recommendations of this report include:
a) The Australian Broadcasting Corporation accepts this Heritage Assessment and Management
Plan as the guiding document for future development or changes to the former Elsternwick Fire
Station building.
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b) The ABC follow the procedures contained in the current ABC Heritage Strategy and the policies
set by the ABC Property in maintaining the place and, when appropriate, advise the relevant
Minister as required under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 of
their intention to divest the Corporation of the site.
c) The former Elsternwick Fire Station building is managed in accordance with best practice
management principles regardless of changes in Ownership.
d) Changes to the place will be noted in records maintained by the Owner as recommended in this
report.
e) The Australian Broadcasting Corporation will seek endorsement of this Heritage Management
Plan by the Minister for the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and
Communities to enable the Owner to undertake certain works in accordance with the endorsed
plan without reference to the Minister. It should be noted that advice from the Minister must be
sought in some circumstances regardless of a plan having been endorsed by the Minister.
f) In the event the former Elsternwick Fire Station is transferred from Commonwealth agency
ownership; the ABC will consult with Glen Eira Council to ensure the current heritage listing is
adequate to provide ongoing heritage protection for the former Fire Station building at the local
level.
This Heritage Management Plan was issued in November 2016 for review/comment by the Department of
Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities. Under Section 341X of the EPBC Act the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation is obliged to review this Plan at least once in every five-year period
while it is in their ownership. This plan should therefore be reviewed no later than November 2021 or earlier
if circumstances relating to the site change.
NBRSARCHITECTURE.
Pamela Jeffery
Senior Heritage Specialist/Architect
23 December 2016
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ABC PRODUCTION SUPPORT FACILITIES
2-16 SELWYN STREET, ELSTERNWICK, NSW 3185
CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................................. I
Major Recommendations .....................................................................................................................................ii
1.0 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................. 11
1.1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 11
1.2 The Study Area ................................................................................................................................. 11
1.3 Study Objectives ............................................................................................................................... 14
1.4 Methodology ..................................................................................................................................... 14
1.5 Limitations ......................................................................................................................................... 15
1.6 Authorship ......................................................................................................................................... 15
1.7 Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................................... 16
2.0 DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE ................................................................................................................................ 17
2.1 Sources of Information ................................................................................................................... 17
2.2 Pre-European History ...................................................................................................................... 17
2.3 Early Settlement in Elsternwick ..................................................................................................... 17
2.4 4 Selwyn Street (Elsternwick Fire station)................................................................................... 22
2.4.1 Hiatus 1927-1989 ............................................................................................................................. 26
2.4.2 2-4 Selwyn Street Elsternwick, 1990 to date .............................................................................. 27
2.4.3 Outline Chronology of the former Elsternwick Fire Station ..................................................... 28
2.5 John Thomas Kelleher (1844-1928) ............................................................................................. 28
2.6 6-12 Selwyn Street ........................................................................................................................... 31
2.6.1 10-16 Selwyn Street ......................................................................................................................... 33
2.7 JJ Webster Pty Ltd........................................................................................................................... 35
3.0 PHYSICAL EVIDENCE ......................................................................................................................................... 36
3.1 Setting and Physical Context ......................................................................................................... 36
3.2 Identification of Existing Fabric ..................................................................................................... 39
3.2.1 Fabric Condition ............................................................................................................................... 39
3.2.2 External Fabric .................................................................................................................................. 39
3.3 Internal Fabric ................................................................................................................................... 45
3.3.1 Modifications & Adaptations.......................................................................................................... 53
3.4 Moveable Heritage ........................................................................................................................... 54
4.0 ASSESSMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE .................................................................................. 55
4.1 Stylistic Context................................................................................................................................ 55
4.2 Comparative Analysis...................................................................................................................... 57
4.3 Curtilage ............................................................................................................................................. 59
4.4 Archaeological Potential ................................................................................................................. 59
4.5 Assessment of Commonwealth Heritage Values ...................................................................... 60
4.6 Application of Commonwealth Heritage criteria ........................................................................ 61
4.7 Statement of Cultural Heritage Significance .............................................................................. 63
4.8 Identified National Historical Themes.......................................................................................... 63
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4.9 Grading of Significance ................................................................................................................... 63
4.9.1 Exceptional Significance ................................................................................................................. 64
4.9.2 High Significance ............................................................................................................................. 65
4.9.3 Moderate Significance .................................................................................................................... 65
4.9.4 Little Significance ............................................................................................................................. 65
4.9.5 Intrusive Elements ........................................................................................................................... 65
4.10 Significant Views and Vistas .......................................................................................................... 66
5.0 HERITAGE MANAGEMENT ISSUES .................................................................................................................... 67
5.1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 67
5.2 Opportunities and challenges arising from the heritage significance of the place ............. 67
5.3 Opportunities and challenges Arising from Owners Requirements ....................................... 67
5.4 Opportunities and challenges arising from the physical condition of the building ............. 67
5.5 Opportunities and challenges arising from inclusion on the Commonwealth Heritage
List ....................................................................................................................................................... 68
5.6 Opportunities and challenges arising from inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register . 68
5.7 Opportunities and challenges arising from inclusion on the Glen Eira Heritage
Schedule/Overlay ............................................................................................................................. 69
5.8 Constraints & Opportunities arising from other Non-Statutory Heritage Listings .............. 69
5.9 Opportunities and challenges arising from other statutory requirements ........................... 69
6.0 HERITAGE MANAGEMENT POLICY .................................................................................................................... 71
6.1 Heritage Management Policies Generally ................................................................................... 71
6.2 Commonwealth Heritage management principles ................................................................... 71
6.3 Policy Recommendations .............................................................................................................. 72
6.3.1 Basis of Conservation Approach ................................................................................................... 74
6.3.2 Future Use of the Building .............................................................................................................. 74
6.3.3 Co-ordination of the Planning ........................................................................................................ 74
6.3.4 Continuing Conservation Advice ................................................................................................... 74
6.3.5 Statutory Consent ............................................................................................................................ 75
6.3.6 General Maintenance and Repair Principles ............................................................................... 75
6.3.7 Removal of Significant Heritage Fabric ....................................................................................... 75
6.3.8 Adaptation ......................................................................................................................................... 75
6.3.9 Additions to the former Elsternwick Fire Station ....................................................................... 76
6.3.10 Exterior Fabric ................................................................................................................................ 77
6.3.11 Painting ............................................................................................................................................ 78
6.3.12 Interior Fabric ................................................................................................................................. 78
6.3.13 Services ........................................................................................................................................... 79
6.3.14 Signage ............................................................................................................................................ 79
6.3.15 Protection of Commonwealth Heritage values........................................................................ 79
6.3.16 Review of Heritage Management Plan ...................................................................................... 79
6.3.17 Interpretation & Promotion of Commonwealth Heritage values .......................................... 80
6.3.18 Access & Security Arrangements ............................................................................................... 80
6.3.19 Community Consultation ............................................................................................................. 81
6.3.20 Records of Intervention & Maintenance .................................................................................... 81
6.3.21 Resolution of Conflict between User Needs & Heritage Significance ................................. 81
6.3.22 On-going Funding .......................................................................................................................... 81
7.0 POLICY IMPLEMENTATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS ..................................................................................... 82
7.1 Review and Monitoring the Heritage Management Plan ......................................................... 82
7.2 Recommendations .......................................................................................................................... 82
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7.2.1 Responsibility for Implementation of Policies ............................................................................ 82
7.3 Proposed Staging of Works ........................................................................................................... 82
7.4 Recommended Priority 1 Conservation Works .......................................................................... 83
7.4.1 General Guidelines ........................................................................................................................... 83
7.4.2 Setting ................................................................................................................................................ 83
7.5 Planned Maintenance Generally .................................................................................................... 84
7.6 Recommended Priority 2 Works ................................................................................................... 85
7.7 Recommended Priority 3 Works ................................................................................................... 89
8.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY .................................................................................................................................................. 91
8.1 Primary Sources ............................................................................................................................... 91
8.2 Secondary Sources .......................................................................................................................... 91
8.3 Internet Sources ............................................................................................................................... 91
9.0 APPENDICES ...................................................................................................................................................... 92
9.1 Commonwealth Heritage List Inventory Sheet .......................................................................... 92
9.2 Extract from Caulfield Conservation Study: 2-4 Selwyn Street ............................................... 96
9.3 National Trust of Australia (Victoria): Former MFB Station No. 31 ........................................ 99
9.4 Certificate of Title Volume 8831 Folio 593 ............................................................................... 101
9.5 Certificate of Title Volume 8831 Folio 594 ............................................................................... 103
9.6 Plan of subdivision of Part of Section 272. Parish of Prahran, County of Bourke (Vol.2088
Fol.572) ........................................................................................................................................... 105
9.7 Property Report for 10-16 Selwyn Street, Elsternwick VIC 3185 ......................................... 109
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LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1 - Plan showing the location and extent of the allotments comprising Numbers 2-16 Selwyn Street, Elsternwick. The former Elsternwick Fire Station site is shown shaded. Source: Farren Lands Surveys Pty Ltd, annotated by NBRSArchitecture, November 2016. ........................................................................................................... 12 Figure 2 - Plan showing the layout of buildings at 2-16 Selwyn Street, including the former Fire Station (shown shaded) located at 2-4 Selwyn Street, Elsternwick 3185. Source: ABC, annotated by NBRSArchitecture. ........... 13 Figure 3 - Sequence of investigations, decisions and actions undertaken in the preparation of this Heritage Management Plan. Source: Australia ICOMOS 2013. ...................................................................................................... 15 Figure 4 – An extract from the Government Gazette of Victoria creating the Village of Elsternwick. Source: Government Gazette of Victoria, September 17, 1851, p498. .......................................................................................... 18 Figure 5 - Detail of the plan of the Parish of Prahran, 185, Victorian Department of Crown Lands and Survey. Portion 272 is highlighted on this plan. Source: National Library of Australia, MAP RM 1307. ............................... 18 Figure 6 - Detail of the parish map showing the allotments purchased by Josiah Holloway, including Portion 272. Source: National Library of Australia, MAP RM 1307. ............................................................................................. 19 Figure 7 - Glen Huntly Road, Elsternwick undated. Source: State Library of Victoria. ............................................... 20 Figure 8 – Plan of J M Holloway’s subdivision of Portion 272 Parish of Prahran, Application 24677. Source: Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning. .................................................................................... 20 Figure 9 - Block plan of Hugh Moore's property after conversion application 24677, Certificate of Title Vol 2083 Fol 572. Source: LANDATA, Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning. ................................. 20 Figure 10 – View of Glenmoore, the residence constructed for Hugh Moore and his family in c1868. Source: National Trust of Australia (Victoria). ................................................................................................................................... 21 Figure 11 – 1889 Plan of Subdivision of Part of Section 272 Parish of Prahran County of Bourke. Note Sinclair Street was formerly Davis Street. Source: LANDATA, Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning, Vol 2083 Fol 572. .................................................................................................................................................... 22 Figure 12 - Block plan showing Lot 23 accompanying Certificate of Title Vol 2573 Fol 592. Source: LANDATA, Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning. .................................................................................... 23 Figure 13 – Footprint of Elsternwick Fire Station, 1902. Source: State Library of Victoria, M.M.B.W. Drainage Plan 'Town of Caulfield' No. 1464.......................................................................................................................................... 24 Figure 14 - Selwyn Street facade of the Elsternwick Fire Station, c1918, showing the Hotchkiss Fire Engine and crew. Source: Fire Services Museum Collection. .............................................................................................................. 25 Figure 15 - The motorised fire vehicle at the entrance to the Elsternwick Fire Station, c1918. Source: Fire Services Museum Collection. ................................................................................................................................................. 25 Figure 16 -The New Metropolitan Fire Brigade Station, corner of Brighton Road and Scott Streets, opened 25th January 1927. Note the Fire Station (Figure 17) was located to the rear of the flats, and was accessed from Scott Street. Source: St Kilda Historical Society, Cooper, a history of St Kilda, Vol 1. ............................................... 26 Figure 17 - View of the Fire Station from Scott Street, April 2013. Source: Google Maps, 2016. ............................ 26 HERITAGE MANAGEMENT PLAN ABC Production Support Facilities, 2-16 Selwyn Street Elsternwick VIC 3185 vii P:\16\16646\400_Documentation\01_Reports\Heritage Management Plan_20161223.docx
Figure 18 - Former Elsternwick Fire Station, 1974, prior to the removal of paint from the exterior of the building by the ABC. Source: State Library of Victoria. .................................................................................................................... 27 Figure 19 - Notice showing the promotion of John Thomas Kelleher from a Draftsman in the 5th Class to a Draftsman in the 4th Class in the Victorian Public Works Office. Source: Victorian Government Gazette, November 1873. ....................................................................................................................................................................... 29 Figure 20 - Fitzroy Post Office designed in the Victorian Italianate style by John Thomas Kelleher, c1890. Source: Unknown...................................................................................................................................................................... 29 Figure 21 - Athole, 18 Poplar Grove, Carnegie (Murrumbeena), the home of John Thomas Kelleher, constructed in 1889. Source: Victorian Heritage Database. .................................................................................................................. 30 Figure 22 - View of Athole, ca2005. Source: National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Listing no. B3556. .................. 30 Figure 23 – View of the former office of JJ Webster Pty Ltd, now used to accommodate ABC staff. (Source: NBRSArchitecture, November 2016.) ................................................................................................................................... 31 Figure 24 – The former JJ Webster Pty Ltd offices have been retained and adapted for use by the ABC. Source: NBRSArchitecture, November 2016. .................................................................................................................................... 32 Figure 25 -View of the covered car park within the ABC site. Source: NBRSArchitecture, November 2016. ........ 32 Figure 26 - View of the production studios and storage spaces, looking southwest from the roof of the ABC car park. Source: NBRSArchitecture, November 2016............................................................................................................ 33 Figure 27 – Detail from 1945 aerial survey showing development on the study site. Source: Landata Victoria. 33 Figure 28 – Block plan of land accompanying Certificate of Title Vol 9512 Fol 407, 1990. Lots A and B are now described as 10-16 Selwyn Street. Source: Landata Victoria .......................................................................................... 34 Figure 29 -View of the ABC building situated at the south-east corner of Sinclair Street and Selwyn Street. Source: NBRSArchitecture, November 2016. ...................................................................................................................... 34 Figure 30 – Detail of the ABC offices and the vehicle entrance from Sinclair Street. Source: NBRSArchitecture, November 2016. ....................................................................................................................................................................... 35 Figure 31 - Aerial photograph showing the suburban context of the former Elsternwick Fire Station (outlined in red). ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 36 Figure 32 - View of the former Elsternwick Fire Station, looking northeast along Selwyn Street from the corner of Selwyn Street and Glen Huntly Road. Source: NBRSArchitecture, October 2012. ..................................................... 37 Figure 33 - View showing the former Elsternwick Fire Station and its context in Selwyn Street. Source: NBRSArchitecture, October 2012. ......................................................................................................................................... 37 Figure 34 - General view of the ABC production and storage buildings adjoining the northern side of the former Elsternwick Fire Station. Source: NBRSArchitecture, October 2012. ............................................................................ 38 Figure 35 - View showing the general streetscape of Selwyn Street looking north. Source: NBRSArchitecture, November 2016. ....................................................................................................................................................................... 38 Figure 36 – Main (west) elevation of the former Elsternwick Fire Station, addressing Selwyn Street. 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Figure 37 - Detail of the horseshoe-shaped entrance showing the limestone and trachyte detailing. Source: NBRSArchitecture, October 2012. ......................................................................................................................................... 41 Figure 38 - Detail showing deteriorated mortar joints in the Selwyn Street facade. Source: NBRSArchitecture, October 2012. ............................................................................................................................................................................ 41 Figure 39 - Detail of the decorative terracotta tiling to the Selwyn street facade. Note the deteriorated mortar joints and crack indicating previous movement in the wall. Source: NBRSArchitecture, October 2012. .............. 42 Figure 40 - Subfloor vents are generally in poor condition or missing from the building. Source: NBRSArchitecture, October 2012. ......................................................................................................................................... 42 Figure 41 - Detail over the vehicle entrance to the former Elsternwick Fire Station. Source: NBRSArchitecture, October 2012. ............................................................................................................................................................................ 43 Figure 42 - Detail showing new gutter, located to the rear of the gable parapet and the chimney, view looking west from Selwyn Lane. Source: NBRSArchitecture, October 2012. ............................................................................ 43 Figure 43 - View of the south elevation of the former Elsternwick Fire Station. Source: NBRSArchitecture, October 2012. ............................................................................................................................................................................ 44 Figure 44 - View of the south elevation showing the metal shed located at the rear of the former Elsternwick Fire Station. Source: NBRSArchitecture, November 2016....................................................................................................... 44 Figure 45 - Plan showing the space numbers within the former Elsternwick Fire Station. Source: ABC, annotated by NBRSArchitecture, November 2016. ............................................................................................................................... 45 Figure 46 - Interior of the former garage area, looking west to the rear of the original entrance doors, the boarded timber ceiling and the ceiling rose. Source: NBRSArchitecture, October 2012. .......................................... 49 Figure 47 - General view showing the new ceiling installed over the original open service courtyard (Space 1b). Source: NBRSArchitecture, November 2016. ...................................................................................................................... 49 Figure 48 - General view of the north wall of the former fire engine garage showing the evidence of the original masonry wall (between Space 1a and Space 1b). Source: NBRSArchitecture, November 2016. ........................... 50 Figure 49 – Internal view of the original timber and glass doors to the fire engine garage (Space 1a). Source: NBRSArchitecture, November 2016. .................................................................................................................................... 50 Figure 50 - Detail of door showing the painted face brickwork and the new security door (Space 1a). Source: NBRSArchitecture, November 2016. .................................................................................................................................... 51 Figure 51 - Lavatories located in Space 9. Source: NBRSArchitecture, November 2016. ......................................... 51 Figure 52 - General view of storage area (Space 9). Source: NBRSArchitecture, November 2016. ........................ 52 Figure 53 - General view looking southwards towards Space 9. Source: NBRSArchitecture, November 2016. 52 Figure 54 – Typical construction of the production and storage areas of Spaces 7,8 and 9. Source: NBRSArchitecture, November 2016. .................................................................................................................................... 53 Figure 55 - Sketch of Williamstown Town Hall designed by Walker and Johnson Architects, 1889. ...................... 55 Figure 56 - South Yarra Post Office, 1892. Source: Victorian Heritage Database ...................................................... 56 HERITAGE MANAGEMENT PLAN ABC Production Support Facilities, 2-16 Selwyn Street Elsternwick VIC 3185 ix P:\16\16646\400_Documentation\01_Reports\Heritage Management Plan_20161223.docx
Figure 57 - The former Flemington Court House, c1889. Source: Victorian Heritage Database ............................. 56 Figure 58 – Former Omeo Post Office, 1890. Source: Victorian Heritage Database ................................................. 56 Figure 59 - Euroa Court House, 1892. Source: Victorian Heritage Database............................................................... 56 Figure 60 - Bairnsdale Court House, 1892. Source: Victorian Heritage Database ....................................................... 56 Figure 61 – View of the Selwyn Street (main) facade of the Former Elsternwick Fire Station, following removal of the paint finish. Source: NBRS+Partners ............................................................................................................................ 57 Figure 62 – The Newmarket Metropolitan Fire Station located at Wellington Street, Flemington, designed by JH Kelleher and opened in 1896. Source: State Library of Victoria ..................................................................................... 58 Figure 63 - View of the facade of the former Newmarket Metropolitan Fire Station, ca2015, showing loss of architectural details to the upper level. Source: Google image, 18 Nov 2016. ............................................................ 58 Figure 64 - Plan showing the legal lot boundary (Lot 23) of the former Elsternwick Fire Station. ........................... 59 Figure 65 - Plan showing significant buildings within Heritage Overlay No. 72. The ABC site is shaded red and the former Elsternwick Fire Station within the ABC property is identified as a Significant Place. Source: Elsternwick Commercial Heritage Area Draft Heritage Guidelines, June 2003, Glen Eira City Council, adapted by NBRSArchitecture, November 2016. .................................................................................................................................... 70 Figure 66 - Plan showing potential development associated with the former Elsternwick Fire Station building. Source: NBRSArchitecture, November 2016. ...................................................................................................................... 76 HERITAGE MANAGEMENT PLAN ABC Production Support Facilities, 2-16 Selwyn Street Elsternwick VIC 3185 x P:\16\16646\400_Documentation\01_Reports\Heritage Management Plan_20161223.docx
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 INTRODUCTION
This Heritage Management Plan for the former Elsternwick Fire Station was commissioned by the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the building Owner, as partial fulfilment of the ABC’s
obligations under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
(EPBC Act).
Under Section 341S of the EPBC Act a ‘...Commonwealth agency must make a written plan to protect
and manage the Commonwealth Heritage values of a Commonwealth Heritage place it owns or controls.’
This report is consistent with recommendations contained in the ABC Heritage Strategy 2007-2011.
The former Elsternwick Fire Station, at 2-4 Selwyn Street, forms part of the wider ABC property
known as 2 – 16 Selwyn Street, Elsternwick. Only the former Elsternwick Fire Station is of heritage
significance.
1.2 THE STUDY AREA
The subject site comprises six parcels of land situated on the eastern side of Selwyn Street,
Elsternwick in the block bounded on the south by Selwyn Lane and to the north by Sinclair Street.
The site has been acquired by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the 1990s, and includes
the heritage-listed former Elsternwick Fire Station, refer to Figure 2.
The site is described in the following documents held by the Victoria Lands Department and are
shown in Figure 1.
Volume 2573 Folio 592 (23/LP2360) - Former Elsternwick Fire Station
Volume 2844 Folio 715 (1/TP707875)
Volume 8147 Folio 645 (1/TP231713)
Volume 8831 Folio 594 (two parcels of land). Note removal of easement and road status
shown on Plan Number LP2360 Dealing Number AP12590S SEC73, dated 06/11/08.
Volume 9512 Folio 407 (CP155134)
Volume 8831 Folio 593
The former Fire Station building is located at No. 2-4 Street Elsternwick1, and is described as Lot 23
in Lodged Plan 2360 in documents held by LANDATA (Victorian Department of Sustainability and
Environment).
1
The subject site is described in LANDATA (Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment) as No. 2-4 Selwyn Street, Elsternwick.
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P:\16\16646\400_Documentation\01_Reports\Heritage Management Plan_20161223.docxFigure 1 - Plan showing the location and extent of the allotments comprising Numbers 2-16 Selwyn Street, Elsternwick.
The former Elsternwick Fire Station site is shown shaded. Source: Farren Lands Surveys Pty Ltd, annotated by
NBRSArchitecture, November 2016.
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P:\16\16646\400_Documentation\01_Reports\Heritage Management Plan_20161223.docxFigure 2 - Plan showing the layout of buildings at 2-16 Selwyn Street, including the former Fire Station (shown shaded)
located at 2-4 Selwyn Street, Elsternwick 3185. Source: ABC, annotated by NBRSArchitecture.
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The main objective of this Heritage Management Plan is generally to provide a practical working
document to guide future works or changes to the former Elsternwick Fire Station to ensure the
building’s identified Commonwealth Heritage values are adequately identified, protected and
conserved regardless of ownership. This management plan aims to:
Provide an understanding of the historic development of the place, and a description of the
physical fabric and its condition.
Identify the Commonwealth Heritage values of the place against the prescribed
Commonwealth Heritage criteria.
Set out policies to ensure the surviving fabric of the former Elsternwick Fire Station will be
managed and interpreted in accordance with Commonwealth Heritage management
principles defined by the amended Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
1999.
In part, satisfy the obligations of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation under Section
341S of the EPBC Act 1999, as amended. To particularly address the ABC’s obligations
under Regulation 10.03B (Schedules 7A - Management Plans for Commonwealth Places)
and Regulation 10.03D (Schedule 7B – Commonwealth Heritage management principles)
of the EPBC Regulation 2000, as amended.
1.4 METHODOLOGY
This report was prepared to, in part, satisfy the obligations of the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation under Section 341S of the EPBC Act 1999, as amended. The methodology and format
of this report is generally consistent with that set out in the following documents:
Australian Government, Department of the Environment and Heritage. Management Plans
for Places on the Commonwealth Heritage List: A guide for Commonwealth agencies.
November, 2006, Australian Government, Canberra.
Dr James Semple Kerr, The Conservation Plan. 7th Edition, 2013, National Trust of Australia
(NSW), Sydney.
The methodology used in the preparation of this report generally follows that recommended as best-
practice by Australia ICOMOS (see Figure 3).
The terms fabric, place, preservation, reconstruction, restoration, adaptation and conservation used
throughout this report have the meaning given them in Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural
Significance (Burra Charter) 2013.
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Plan. Source: Australia ICOMOS 2013.
1.5 LIMITATIONS
Inspection of the place was carried out without physical intervention of the fabric, and while the
building was occupied and operational. Inspection of the external fabric was by eye, from ground
level, and is general in nature.
No European or Aboriginal archaeological assessment was undertaken as part of this report.
This report does not address archaeological significance of the subject site.
1.6 AUTHORSHIP
The following staff of NBRSARCHITECTURE participated in the production of this report:
Pamela Jeffery, Architect.
Léonie Masson, Historian.
Photographs and illustration have been prepared by NBRSARCHITECTURE unless otherwise noted.
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The Author gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the following people in the preparation of this
report:
Mr Roschel Vaz, Manager Facilities, ABC Southbank.
Mr James Gellately, Property Services Officer, ABC Ripponlea Centre.
Mr David Long, Property Services Officer, ABC Ripponlea Centre.
NBRSARCHITECTURE also acknowledges the assistance of the following people in the preparation
of the history of the former Elsternwick Fire Station in earlier versions of this report:
Mr Tony Paynter, Curator, Fire Services Museum of Victoria.
Mr Ron Barker, Fire Services Museum of Victoria.
Mr Geoffrey Annal, Fire Services Museum of Victoria.
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2.1 SOURCES OF INFORMATION
The main documentary sources consulted in the research for this report are listed below:
Metropolitan Fire Brigade Board
Fire Services Museum of Victoria, Inc.
City of Glen Eira
State Library of Victoria
National Library of Australia – Trove databases
Landata Victoria
This report also draws on information contained in two previous reports prepared for the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, namely:
Broomham, Rosemary, Accommodating the ABC: A Thematic History, unpublished report prepared
for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2009.
Willingham, Allan, The former Elsternwick Fire Station 2-4 Selwyn Street Elsternwick: A cultural
history and assessment of cultural significance for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
North Fitzroy, Allan Willingham, 1998.
A complete Bibliography is contained in Section 8.0 of this report.
2.2 PRE-EUROPEAN HISTORY
According to early European reports the coastal tract stretching south east from Melbourne was
occupied by the Yalukit Willam clan in the 1835. That clan was part of the Boonerwrung (Bun-er-
rong) tribe. The Boonerwrung tribe was one of five tribes forming the Kulin Nation of central Victoria.
Their territory extended along the northern, eastern and southern shorelines of Port Phillip, the
Mornington Peninsula, Western Port and its two main islands, as well as land to the south-east down
to Wilsons Promontory. This territory was known to the Kulin clans as the marr ne bek or ‘excellent
country’ as it had an abundance of food resources. The Bunurong people were the custodians of the
marr ne bek country.
Frederick Revans Chapman stated in his reminiscences of early Elwood,
I remember our excitement when one day, probably in 1`857, two hundred blacks from Gippsland
arrived suddenly in Hotham Street, trooping towards Elsternwick. An hour of two later, a solitary
female appeared, and we gave her something to eat. She followed the tracks of the tribe in the
dusty road, and when we asked her if she could see her husband’s tracks, she pointed them out
to us amid hundreds of others, and started to follow them at a run, pursuing an irregular course
such as he had taken when carelessly strolling with the mob. In the evening we followed the
blacks, hearing that they were going to hold a corroboree, and found the whole tribe camped at
a place where the trees were fairly thick. There were no residences near, save for a house or two
along Brighton-road, some distance away. I think the spot must have been somewhere not far
from where, in later years, Sir Frederick Sargood built his fine house (Rippon Lea). Here we
stayed until midnight, mixing with the blacks, listening to their chants, and watching the strange
and grave dances of the corroboree circle.2
2.3 EARLY SETTLEMENT IN ELSTERNWICK
The village of Elsternwick3 was formally laid out by surveyor Robert Hoddle in 1851, and was further
subdivided in 1856 with land sales continuing into the 1860s. Until the land boom of the 1880s, the
Elsternwick area primarily consisted of rural estates and was sparsely populated.
2
Frederick Revans Chapman, ‘South Suburban Melbourne’, 1854-1864, manuscript MS000196 Box 51/9, Royal Historical Society of Victoria.
3
One popular theory for the origin of the name “Elsternwick” is that overlander, Charles Hotson Ebden built a house in the area near South
Elwood which he named, 'Elster', the German word for 'magpie'. During the 1850s, the creek near his house became known as Elster Creek,
and later when a village, or wick (an Anglo-Saxon word meaning village), developed in the vicinity of the creek, the area became known as
Elsternwick. The St Kilda Historical Society however ascribes to the view that the place was named by surveyor Edward William Bagshawe
who was educated at Elstronwick near Hull (in the County of York, East Riding).
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P:\16\16646\400_Documentation\01_Reports\Heritage Management Plan_20161223.docxFigure 4 – An extract from the Government Gazette of Victoria creating the Village of Elsternwick. Source: Government
Gazette of Victoria, September 17, 1851, p498.
Figure 5 - Detail of the plan of the Parish of Prahran, 185, Victorian Department of Crown Lands and Survey. Portion 272
is highlighted on this plan. Source: National Library of Australia, MAP RM 1307.
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P:\16\16646\400_Documentation\01_Reports\Heritage Management Plan_20161223.docxFigure 6 - Detail of the parish map showing the allotments purchased by Josiah Holloway, including Portion 272.
Source: National Library of Australia, MAP RM 1307.
The Elsternwick railway station opened as part of the privately-run Brighton line in 1859. Initially an
unreliable service, it received a boost in the 1880s when it was taken over by the government.
Elsternwick began to attract residents in the intervening period, many of them building substantial
homes and mansions. The largest of these estates was Sir Frederick Sargood’s ‘Rippon Lea’ which
at its peak covered 45 acres (18 ha). Social and cultural institutions sprung up in the following
decade including the Elsternwick Club in 1898. Elsternwick Park served as a racecourse in the 19th
century and during the 1880s and 1890s was devoted entirely to trotting.
Further subdivision for suburban residential development took place in the 1890s and 1900s,
resulting in the present street layout, subdivision pattern and housing stock. The shopping centre
developed along Glen Huntly Road following the opening of Elsternwick Station in 1859. Retail
development was further promoted in that locale when the substantial estate ‘Glenmoore’ was
subdivided into housing blocks and shops were erected along the Glen Huntly Road frontage in
1891.
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