Highton Median PriceThe House price is 5% lower than last year.
Surrounding suburbsHighton Median RentThe House rent is 4% higher than last year.
| | Map | Street view | Nearby property price | | Planning History: | | | Registered as Victorian heritage | C Listed - Local Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The Highton Primary School building at 212 Roslyn Road is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of both Victorian and interwar stripped Classical styles. These qualities include the two flanking steeply pitched gable roof forms linked by a traversing gable and a parapetted flat roofed central section that slightly projects towards the street frontage. Other intact qualities include the corrugated galvanised iron roof cladding, horizontal weatherboard wall cladding and unpainted brick construction, ventilation stacks, narrow eaves, timber framed double hung twelve paned windows with upper three paned hopper sashes, timber framed twelve paned double hung windows with concrete lintels, gable ventilators, segmentally arched cement rendered opening punctuated by a large keystone and flanked by unpainted brick pilasters with abstract concrete capitals, vertically-oriented cement rendered rectangular panelling, broken-arched signage, and the cemented rendered and banded brick parapet. The Highton Primary School building at 212 Roslyn Road is historically significant at a REGIONAL level. It is associated with the development of the Gnarwarre State School between c.1860 and 1880, and with the development of the Highton State (Primary) School from 1880. The Highton Primary School building at 212 Roslyn Road is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and valued by the community for its educational associations. Overall, the Highton Primary School building at 212 Roslyn Road is of LOCAL significance. |
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