| House | $808,500  |
| Land | $530,000 |
Surrounding suburbs
| Ballarat North | $619,900 |
| Black Hill | $580,400 |
| Brown Hill | $705,500  |
| Invermay | $1,441,200 |
| House | $483 |
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| Registered as Victorian heritage |
| Last updated on - May 28, 1999 What is significant? Gold was discovered at Nerrina, originally called Little Bendigo, in 1851. The town was later renamed, due to confusion with Bendigo, but the school retained the original name of the town. The town was important both for its gold mining and for its water works, used to supply and deliver water for gold sluicing. The first school in the town was held in a wooden hall attached to St James Church of England, which the Department of Education rented for ??20 per annum. In 1878, due to the increasing number of children of school age, the Department purchased land with a five roomed house on it, and built a new school, which was then in a bush setting. The Little Bendigo State School Number 2093 at Nerrina opened in 1878 with 138 pupils and four teachers. After one year there were 153 pupils and six staff. As the population increased, the school became too small, and both the Methodist and St James Halls had to be leased to hold all the classes. Nerrina is now a suburb of Ballarat. Primary School Number 2093 is a picturesque (rendered?) brick building in a Victorian rustic Gothic style, built on foundations of bluestone said to be from the Geelong area. The school has only one room, forty by twenty feet [about thirteen by six metres]; it has a rectangular plan with a small entrance porch at one end. The roof is a half hipped gable, a form which is repeated on the smaller transverse gables projecting on each side, and on the porch, and there are iron finials on all the ridge ends. The roof has skylights, and still has its original Welsh slates. The windows are narrow Gothic double hung sashes, with a group of three, with a taller central one, under the side gables, and three high smaller rectangular windows under the end gables. The interior has a timber lined ceiling and the timber roof frames are prominent. The original gallery has been removed. How is it significant? The Primary School at Nerrina is of architectural and historical significance to the State of Victoria. Why is it significant? The Primary School at Nerrina is of architectural significance as a surviving intact example of a small country school house, consisting of only one large room with an entry porch. It is an unusual example of a picturesque Gothic school with a half hipped gable roof, still covered with its with its original slates, and with decorative iron finials on the ridge ends. Primary School Number 2093 at Nerrina is of historical significance as a reflection of the prosperous early days of the town of Little Bendigo (later renamed Nerrina). Its relatively large size and sophisticated form reflects the size and the wealth of the community in the years after the discovery of gold in 1851. [Online Data Upgrade Project 2004] |
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