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LOCATION
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Address 505 Fullarton Road NETHERBY
Locality
Accuracy H - high level confidence
Council Area Mitcham Council
Polygon Type B - Building footprint
DESCRIPTION
Details (Known As) Original School Building/Headmaster's Residence, Urrbrae Agricultural High School
Registered Name Original School Building/Headmaster's Residence, Urrbrae Agricultural High School
Significance The Urrbrae Agricultural High School is significant as the first agricultural high school to be established in South Australia. The Original Building for the school, incorporating the former headmaster's residence, and dormitory and kitchen facilities for boarders, was built on land previously owned by Peter Waite, a prominent South Australian pastoralist. In 1913 he donated his inner suburban property known as Urrbrae to the South Australian Government for use as an agricultural and forestry research unit, as well as 114 acres of adjoining land for use as an agricultural high school. Opened in 1932, the headmaster's residence (with planned dormitory used as classrooms), was the only one of five planned buildings to be erected, due to the effects of the Depression. In original condition, and still used for the purpose for which it was built, the School has continued to educate South Australian secondary school aged students in an agriculturally focused curriculum to the present.
Subject Index Education - Secondary School; Residential - House; Farming and grazing - Farm House
Class State
STATUS
Status Code REG - Confirmed as a State Heritage Place in the SA Heritage Register
Status Date 25-OCT-2013
REFERENCE
LGA Mitcham
State Heritage ID 26306
Heritage Number 26978
SECTION 16 INFORMATION
Section 16 a - it demonstrates important aspects of the evolution or pattern of the State's history
PLAN PARCEL & TITLE
As listed in the SA Heritage Register
Plan Parcel & Title Information CT 6278/253 D129045 A60

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