Heritage at Risk 2009
Glenside Hospital, 226 Fullarton Road, Glenside
Port Adelaide Maritime Heritage
Bells Plumbers Shop - 15 Payneham Rd, College Park
Adelaide Park Lands, former railway yards
Morgan Building, Pulteney Grammar School
Glenside Hospital, 226 Fullarton Road, Glenside
Significance:
Glenside Hospital occupies a large site of over 130 acres close to the Adelaide CBD. The hospital is one Australia's best examples of mid nineteenth century planning for the mentally ill.
The original concept was for a series of substantial and high quality stone buildings, formally arranged within a park like campus, surrounded by farms.
The heritage values of Glenside relate not only to the architectural quality of individual buildings but also the sophistication of the original site planning. The quality of this scheme has been diminished, particularly by the design and location of new buildings erected from the 1970s, but remains discernable and recoverable. The spirit of the original campus plan has the potential to provide a sympathetic basis for guiding the location, form and scale of new buildings on the site.
The 2003 Conservation and Management Plan does not adequately assess the significance of this aspect of Glenside. The campus includes nine State Heritage listed buildings, eleven structures nominated for local heritage listing and almost two hundred significant trees.
Port Adelaide Maritime Heritage
Significance:
The Port of Adelaide was one of South Australia's earliest settlements,and has historically been the major port of entry to the State. Its diverse maritime heritage includes the old Customs House (in the State Heritage Register), the Fletchers Slip, (now provisionally on the State Heritage Register), the ketch FalieM, the auxiliary ketch Nelcebee the Port Adelaide Sailing Club and the Waterside Workers Federation Hall.
Bells Plumbers Shop, 15 Payneham Rd, College Park
Significance:
This shop ( which is on the State Heritage Register ) is believed to have been built in about 1883, and was purchased by David Bell in 1893. It was in use as a plumbing business until at least 1985. It is significant as an example of a Victorian era shop and dwelling in what was until last year in an unusually original condition.
Adelaide Park Lands, former railway yards
Significance:
The City of Adelaide Park Lands are the most distinctive and unique asset of Adelaide's cultural and natural landscape. The Park Lands are of unique and potent character and natural beauty, a place for solitude and recreation, a definitive icon and invaluable asset of the City, essential to the City's cultural identity and growth of the State's tourism enterprises.
The former railway yards near the Morphett St Bridge, were constructed in the 1860s effectively alienating a large area of open space from the Park Lands.
Harris Scarfe Ltd
Significance:
The Rundle Street building is a substantial neoclassical style structure and one of the last remaining of Adelaide's old departmental store buildings. It is architecturally significant and has rich historical associations. Its facade makes a strong presence to the street. It was assessed and recommended for local heritage listing in 1982 and again in 1993.
Chelsea Cinema
Significance:
It was built to a late Art Nouveau design by Adelaide architect Chris Smith. It opened in 1925 and has operated continuously ever since. In 1941 the building was renovated under the direction of F Kenneth Milne who designed a new Art Deco auditorium, foyer and facade.
The cinema retains a majority of its 1941 features. It is on the State Heritage Register. It is owned by the Burnside Council and leased to Wallis Cinemas. It is one of Adelaide's most intact large suburban cinemas and is one of those special places which give a sense of character and identity to a locality.
Cheltenham Park Racecourse
Significance:
The Cheltenham Park Racecourse is part of Adelaide's metropolitan urban landscape, located northwest of the city centre in the suburb of Cheltenham it comprises an area of 49 hectares of open space in a heavily built-up area.
The Port Adelaide Racing Club bought the site in 1921 and the champion horse Tulloch became the first Australian horse to pass the $100,000 stakes mark when he won the S.J. Pullman Stakes at the track in 1961. In 2006, the South Australian Jockey Club (SAJC) asked the State government to rescind the legislation that prohibited residences, shops, factories or other like premises
in order to sell the land to private developers for housing.
The land should remain as open space for multiple recreational and environmental purposes.
Lower Lakes and Coorong
Significance:
The Lower Lakes and Coorong contain a high diversity of ecological systems and species including many of particular conservation significance (at National, State and Regional level). The area is recognised as one of the top six water bird sites in Australia and is listed as a wetland of international significance under the Convention of Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran 1971).
The Lower Lakes and Coorong region is also of high cultural value to the Ngarrindjeri people who maintain a strong connection to the land, fish, birds and other living things. It is a major tourist and holiday destination popular for recreational, social and cultural activities.
Morgan Building, Pulteney Grammar School
Significance:
This is a large and imposing two storey bluestone building (c.1875) on South Terrace which retains a large degree of original detailing and structure, apart from some alterations to the verandah form and capping of the central section of the roof. The later verandah, while not in the original style, has been carefully designed to complement the original form of the house.
The house indicates the original use of this major street as prime residential land facing the parklands. It forms a counterpoint to the heritage listed building on the western corner of Symonds and South Terrace.
La Eurana Convent, Naracoorte
Significance:
The building dates from 1900. It is a handsome two storey structure, of random stone, with dressed stone quoins, lintels and window sills. It makes an important contribution to the streetscape of Naracoorte.