Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01306:reg:96:p9
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01306
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 96 (pt 9/31)
Character Range: 261164–264292

where the various components contributing to its cultural significance are maintained and interpreted.

  Policy 4.1
  Items of Exceptional Significance (official listed values) are to be conserved and protected including through monitoring.

  Refer Section 4.7 for what is included under this heading. This requires some works to be undertaken to conserve and protect the building and regular inspection, monitoring and maintenance work to ensure that the building remains in sound condition.

  The items listed "exceptional significance' must be retained, conserved and protected in accordance with the Burra Charter. No adaptation should occur unless essential for the ongoing conservation and protection of the building. Any proposed change must be preceded by careful recording.

  This means:
    >        No intrusion or modification to eastern facade elements.
    >        Continued maintenance of stonework is essential, including repair of damaged stonework, if and when it occurs.
    >        Original windows to be preserved.
    >        Skylight glazing and structure to be preserved and restored.
    >        Skylights should remain substantially naturally lit during the day. With an option for artificial back lighting when desired.
    >        Marble work in foyer to be preserved.
    >        Render detailing throughout both buildings to be preserved.
    >        Original tiling and partitions in toilets (internal toilets of main building) to be preserved.
    >        Foyer, exhibition spaces, library and theatre must remain 2 storey spaces.
    >        Balconies to foyer, library and exhibition spaces must not be enclosed in any manner.
    >        Timber floors to be preserved.
    >        InnesBell Hollow Block floor slab to be preserved.
    >        Original joinery and details to be retained in situ.
    >        Original loose furniture should be retained on site. Items not in use to be catalogued before storage, identifying their location and condition and description.
    >        Original tiling in corridors to be preserved.
    >        Internal stairs and balustrades to be preserved. (Glazed infill over the balustrades and extension handrails at level 1 of the foyer, which have been introduced for BCA compliance, may remain). Similar details may be required to other non-complying balustrades.
    >        No additional permanent signage to be affixed to the external building façade.

    The use of advertising banners draped in front of the façade, as is current practice, is considered acceptable.

    It is acknowledged that the building name over the main entry may change at some stage as the use of the building changes. New signage should:

    –        Be affixed in a manner which reuses existing holes and should not require new holes to be drilled in the stonework.
    –        Be of a similar height to existing.
    –        Use a typeface similar to existing or original external signage (based on documentary evidence).
    >        Marble windowsills to be preserved.
    >        Original lighting, GPOs, light switches to be retained in situ