The Old Kilmore Gaol is a
bluestone
Bluestone is a cultural or commercial name for a number of dimension or building stone varieties, including:
* basalt in Victoria, Australia, and in New Zealand
* dolerites in Tasmania, Australia; and in Britain (including Stonehenge)
* fe ...
building in
Kilmore, Victoria
Kilmore () is a town in the Australian state of Victoria. Located north of Melbourne, it is the oldest inland town in Victoria by the combination of age and physical occupation, and because it had unique agricultural attributes to drive that e ...
. It was originally built as a
gaol
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, English language in England, standard English, Australian English, Australian, and Huron Historic Gaol, historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention cen ...
and is located at 8 to 12 Sutherland Street.
History
Old Kilmore Gaol was built in 1857 under the supervision of
Charles Pasley
General Sir Charles William Pasley (8 September 1780 – 19 April 1861) was a British soldier and military engineer who wrote the defining text on the role of the post-American Revolution British Empire: ''An Essay on the Military Policy and Ins ...
.
[ It was a gaol from 1859 until 1891 when it was decommissioned and used as a butter factory.][ In the 1960s it became a private home and was a restaurant in the 1990s before reverting again to a private home in 2004.][ Its bluestone walls and exterior appearance are the only original features that have been retained.]
Heritage significance
It appears on the Heritage Council of Victoria's Victorian Heritage Database, for being "one of a small group of early Victorian prisons to be built outside of Melbourne." and "for its long use as a centre of dairy production and distribution ... and for its contribution to Kilmore's rare group of Basalt public buildings."
References
1859 establishments in Australia
1891 disestablishments
Maximum security prisons in Australia
Defunct prisons in Victoria (state)
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