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| Map | Street view | Nearby property price | Planning History: | | Registered as Victorian heritage | Last updated on - January 1, 1998 What is significant? The MUIOOF Lodge (former South Star Gold Mine No. 1 Offices), located at 113 Albert Street Sebastopol, to the extent of the fabric dating between c1886 and 1909. The Lodge is a long, narrow asymmetrical timber building, featuring a traverse gable roof and projecting gabled bay. Beneath the verandah are four six-over-six sash windows and a door with six cricket-bat panels and a highlight. There is a highset window to the projecting gable whose multipane sashes (as visible in historic photos) have been removed. The bargeboards to this gable have a star motif. The verandah has a concave roof and retains its cast-iron freeze, and bluestone border at ground level. Constructed as the offices for the South Star Gold Mine (located immediately behind and adjacent). The mine manager's residence (former) is located opposite at 122 Albert Street, Sebastopol. How is it significant? The MUIOOF Lodge is of historic, social and aesthetic significance to the City of Ballarat. Why is it significant? The MUIOOF Lodge is of historic significance as the only surviving Gold Mine Office associated with the Sebastopol goldfields. It is of further historic interest for its role inhosting the Duke and Duchess of York (later King George V) in 1901; a reflection of the importance of the mine as one of the few successful mining enterprises operating during this later gold-mining period. (Criterion A) The MUIOOF Lodge is of social significance as the temporary site of the Sebastopol branch of the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows (MUIOOF), a friendly society providing health, welfare and funeral benefits and life assurance policies to its middle and working class members. (Criterion G) The MUIOOF Lodge is of aesthetic significance as a local landmark commemorating Sebastopol's mining past, which is situated on a prominent central site. (Criterion E) | | 08 Oct 2015 | Use of the land for an art and craft centre and food and drink premises | (Source: City of Ballarat, reference no: PLP/2013/669/A) | | 17 Mar 2022 | Partial demolition, alterations and additions to a building for the use and development of a Medical Centre and alteration of access to a road in RDZ1 | (Source: , reference no: ) |
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