Toodyay Fire Station is on Stirling Terrace in

Toodyay, Western Australia Toodyay (, nys, Duidgee), known as Newcastle between 1860 and 1910, is a town on the Avon River in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, north-east of Perth. The first European settlement occurred in the area in 1836. After flooding i ...

Architectural style

Toodyay Fire Station was designed by architect Ken Duncan, a member of the

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, and was built in 1939. It is notable for its

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facade. It is one of two single bay Stripped Classical fire stations built during the Western Australian Fire Brigades Board's 1930s building campaign. It is rendered in part and bricked to a lower level, all painted. An extension to the side is in the same style.

History

Toodyay Fire Station was a result of the Bush Fires Act 1937, which permitted local authorities to take over the responsibility of bushfire control, along with the purchase and storage of fire-fighting equipment and setting up of fire-fighting brigades. The fire station services were relocated to a new building in 2002. The Toodyay Fire Station is now used as an art gallery.

References

{{reflist Fire stations completed in 1939 Buildings and structures in Toodyay, Western Australia Contemporary art galleries in Australia Defunct fire stations in Western Australia Stirling Terrace, Toodyay State Register of Heritage Places in the Shire of Toodyay