page_title: Ithaca Creek State School
section_title: Landscape Elements
hierarchical_section_title: Ithaca Creek State School / Description / Landscape Elements
caption_attribution_description: English: Tennis Shed, from NE (2015)
context_page_description: Ithaca Creek State School is a heritage-listed state school and war memorial at 49 Lugg Street, Bardon, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Queensland Department of Public Work and built from 1930 to 1939. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 5 February 2016.
context_section_description: The school grounds are well established, with sporting facilities including a generous playing field (1932) at the southeastern end of the site, and two levelled tennis courts (1939, one recently resurfaced as a multi-purpose court) with a timber tennis shed (pre-1946) to the south of Block A. The tennis shed is located south of the western tennis court; and is lowset, sheltered by a corrugated metal-clad hip roof, and clad with a single-skin of timber weatherboards. It comprises a western store room and an open eastern space, separated by a panelled timber door, set within a timber wall, which is lined with wide timber boards above door head-height, and v-jointed (VJ) boards below door head-height. Metal hooks are retained at the door head height, and a timber seat is built into the southern wall of the eastern space.  Window openings have corrugated metal-clad hoods with timber brackets.
  Many mature trees are located within the school grounds, including a large fig tree (Ficus sp.) southeast of the tennis courts.
  The sloping site is terraced by several Depression-era concrete retaining walls. These are located:
  along the Lugg Street boundary
  between Lugg Street and Block A
  north, east and west of Block A (including underneath a 2009 two storey brick building)
  at the northeastern end of the playing field (c. 1930s)
  in between the school buildings and playing field (pre-1960)
  Concrete stairs (c. 1930s) between Block A and tennis courts provide access between the terraces. The terraced nature of the site provides opportunities for views of the surrounding area from within the school grounds and buildings.
  The parade ground (1934–1936) east of Block A allows significant views to be obtained of the building's eastern elevation (its recent surface of bitumen is not significant).
  An Honour Board (1947) is located in the foyer of Block A, listing the names of former students who served in World War II (WWII).
  A painted concrete WWII memorial (erected after 1954) is located northwest of Block A and is dedicated to the Rats of Tobruk. It is of a stepped, art-deco design, with metal crosses fixed to the highest tier; and stands on a stepped plinth. The memorial displays the crest of the Rats of Tobruk Association, and a plaque with the words:
  Note that the memorial and the words upon it are a replica; there are no burials on the school grounds.
caption: Tennis shed, 2015
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