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of a longstanding penal
settlement in its physical layout, governance arrangements, the management
and control of convicts, and the functional arrangements associated with
settlement.

It has substantial ruins, standing structures and archaeological sub-surface
remains related to its operation as a place of primary incarceration and early
settlement, as a place of secondary punishment and finally as a place spanning
both incarceration and secondary punishment.

Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area—Heritage Management Plan, April 2016

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Jean Rice Architect | CONTEXT | GML Heritage

Commonwealth of Australia Gazette
No. S141, 1 August 2007

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The 1829 Government House, one of the earliest and most intact remaining
government house buildings in Australia, is positioned prominently on Dove
Hill with commanding views of the military precinct, colonial administration,
convict quarters, farmland and the pier. The military precinct on Quality Row
contains two extant barracks complexes: the Old Military Barracks and
officers quarters constructed between 1829-1834 surrounded by high walls
giving it an appearance of a military fortress; and the New Military Barracks
commenced in 1836 which follows a similar fortress-like design. The
Commissariat Store (now All Saints Church) (1835) is the finest remaining
colonial (pre 1850) military commissariat store in Australia. The Old Military
Barracks, together with the Commissariat Store and the New Military
Barracks, form a group of buildings which is the most substantial military
barracks complex in Australia dating from the 1830s. The military complexes
are positioned in view of the convict precinct located closer to the water and at
a lower elevation to optimise surveillance. Nine houses in Quality Row built
from 1832-47 provided quarters for military and civil officers.

The archaeological remains of the two convict gaols, the perimeter walls and
archaeological remains of the Prisoners' Barracks (1828-48) with the
Protestant Chapel, show the development of penal philosophies with the
original gaol built for barrack type accommodation while the extant remains of
the New Prison and its perimeter walls (1836-40, 1845-57) provides a rare
representation of a radial design. The role of harsh labour as punishment is
evident in the archaeological remains of the blacksmith's shop (1846); lumber
yard; water mill; the crankmill (1827-38), the remains of the only known
human powered crankmill built in Australia before 1850; the salt house
(1847); the windmill base (1842-43); lime kilns; the landing pier (1839-47)
and sea wall, two of the earliest remaining large scale engineering works in
Australia. The possibility of reform is evident in the Protestant and Catholic
clergyman's quarters.

The settlement patterns are evident in the existing street layout and in the
buildings along Quality Row which form the most extensive street of pre 1850
penal buildings in Australia.