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Character Range: 506884–509826

Albert Road, Sydney, comprising Lots 45 to 49 DP 47116, that
part of Lot 43 DP 47116 south of the alignment of the northernmost segment of the northern
boundary of Lot 49 DP 47116 and Lot 1 DP 48231.

Criterion

(a)

(b)

the place has
outstanding heritage
value to the nation
because of the
place's importance
in the course, or
pattern, of
Australia's natural
or cultural history.

the place has
outstanding heritage
value to the nation
because of the
place's possession
of uncommon, rare
or endangered
aspects of
Australia's natural
or cultural history.

Values

Hyde Park Barracks represents a turning point in the management of British
convicts in Australia. The construction of the Barracks in 1819 enabled the
more systematic control of government assigned male convicts and the work
they undertook. Convicts were subject to greater surveillance and their
freedom was restricted. As such, the Barracks demonstrated the penal
philosophy that transportation was a punishment and that convicts should be
subject to hard labour and strict control.

Hyde Park Barracks is one of the first buildings of substantial design and
construction to be built in a colony which until then had consisted of mainly
makeshift constructions. The values of the place are reflected in the Old
Colonial Georgian simplicity of design, the scale of the complex, its prominent
siting and setting, the quality of the brick and stonework and interior timber
construction.

Hyde Park Barracks is also important because it demonstrates Governor
Lachlan Macquarie's vision for Sydney and the growing colony as a
permanent settlement. On initially surveying the colony Governor Macquarie
became convinced that infrastructure needed to be developed. The
construction of Hyde Park Barracks as an architecturally designed and
substantial structure reflects this permanency while its function as a convict
barracks provided the centralised workforce necessary to sustain large scale
infrastructure projects.

Hyde Park Barracks is the only remaining barracks building and complex from
the Macquarie era of convict administration, and as such, represents a rare
aspect of Australia's cultural history.

The place retains its integrity as a barracks complex with its intact barracks
building, its external expression of its structural elements, the simplicity of its
exterior and interior with its large unadorned spaces, its perimeter walls, parts of
the two gate lodges, the former pavilion, the walled enclosure and the unadorned
spaces of its curtilage.

The values of the place are also reflected in the Old Colonial Georgian
simplicity of the Barracks' design.

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

Authorised Version F2016L01891 registered 09/12/2016

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Criterion

(h) the place has
outstanding heritage

value to the nation
because of the
place's special
association with the
life or works of a
person, or