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including Government House
(1829+), one of the earliest and most intact remaining government house buildings in Australia and the
Old Military Barracks (now the Legislative Assembly and Norfolk Island Court) (1829+). The Old Military
Barracks, together with the Commissariat Store and the New Military Barracks, forms a group of buildings
which is the most substantial military barracks complex in Australia dating from the 1830s. The
Commissariat Store (now All Saints Church) (1835) is the finest remaining colonial (pre 1850) military
commissariat store in Australia. This building, together with the Old Military Barracks and the New Military
Barracks (now Norfolk Island Government Administration offices) (1836), forms a group of buildings which
is a most substantial military barracks complex dating from the 1830s. The soldiers' barracks is one of the
finest military barrack buildings built in Australia in the nineteenth century. There are nine houses
providing quarters for military and civil officers (1832-47). Other features include: perimeter walls and
archaeological remains of the Prisoners' Barracks (1828-48) including the Protestant Chapel; perimeter
walls and archaeological remains of the New Prison (Pentagonal Prison) (1836-40, 1845-57); ruins of the
hospital, built on First Settlement remains (1829); the Surgeon's Quarters and Kitchen (1827), on the site
of a First Settlement Government House, one of the earliest European dwellings in Australia; the Landing

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Pier (1839-47) and sea wall, two of the earliest remaining large scale engineering works in Australia;
Beach store (1825); Settlement Guardhouse (1826), on the foundations of a First Settlement building;
Crankmill (1827-38), the remains of the only known human powered crankmill built in Australia before
1850; Royal Engineer's office and stables (1850); double boat shed (1841); Police Office, now boatshed
(1828-29); Flaghouse (1840s); Constable's Quarters, partly standing (1850-53); Blacksmith's Shop (1846);
Salt House (1847); and Windmill base (1842-43). The Cemetery (1825-present) has an outstanding
collection of headstones and other remains dating from the earliest period of European settlement,
including the first and second penal settlement periods and the Pitcairn period with associations with the
Bounty, set in an evocative and picturesque historical landscape. Many stone walls, wells, drains, building
platforms, bridges, culverts, roads, quarry sites, privies and archaeological sites of former buildings are
important remains. These include Bloody Bridge. The remnant serpentine landscape is an outstanding
example of colonial period (pre-1850) attitudes to landscape design in Australia.

KAVHA is significant for its geology, particularly the petrified forest and calcarenite, Kingston Swamp and
for its biology, including the marine areas.

Attributes

All buildings and other associated fabric that demonstrate European and pre European phases of
occupation, including fabric and artefacts associated with the wreck of the Sirius, archaeological evidence