Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2020L01339:reg:372:p58
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2020L01339
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 372 (pt 58/62)
Character Range: 326746–332865

lightstation and as the longest continuously operating site of a navigational beacon in Australia. The influence of Macquarie in terms of the placement and grandeur of the tower remains evident and due to its location on a prominent ridge on the edge of a city, the Macquarie lighthouse is a rare, surviving colonial landmark signifying the settlement of Sydney.  National Criteria B
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As the oldest lightstation in Australia, the place has evidence of and is associated with the evolution of technological changes associated with lighthouse operation, and the site has the ability to physically demonstrates the changing living and working conditions of the Lighthouse Keepers and their families from 1818 to automation in 1976, a period unequalled by any other Australian lightstation.                                                                    National Criteria B
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The Barnet lighthouse is of exceptional rarity for being the first Australian lightstation to be powered by electricity in 1883, generated by one of the earliest electrical installations in Sydney.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                National Criteria B
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The place is also considered to be rare for containing the earliest surviving lightkeepers quarters in Australia, almost certainly designed by Colonial Architect Mortimer Lewis which, while altered, are still a rare and substantially intact example of an early Government-built cottage residence and one of only three known such buildings still surviving in Australia.                                                                                                     National Criteria B
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The Macquarie Lightstation is exceptional rare for containing the remains of the lighthouse compound designed by the convict Francis Greenway for Governor Macquarie and other individual features of note including:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                State/Local Criteria F
      * Quarry: rare, relatively undisturbed early colonial and Victorian period stone quarry
      * Greenway's 1817 retaining wall: a very early and rare colonial sandstone wall
      * 1883 stables: rare substantial government-built 2-stall stables associated with a lightstation.
      * Lighthouse lantern: a rare Victorian period Chance 3600mm (12") first-order lighthouse lantern notable for its Trinity-style (diagonal) glazing.
      * Lighthouse generator: a unique (Australia wide) example of a de Meritens alternator and switchboard manufactured in the early 1880s (now held at the Powerhouse Museum)
      * Lighthouse (twin) domes: rare lead-sheeted Victorian period building domes.
      * Lighthouse ventilators: rare late Victorian period sheet metal roof ventilators.

Criteria (c) Research potential
The Macquarie Lightstation site has high potential to contain rare archaeological remains of historic, aesthetic, associative and social significance. These potential remains relate to the continuous use of the highest part of South Head as the location of a marker and signal beacon and the historic development of navigational aids from 1790 to the present day and any remains uncovered have the potential to be of National significance.   National Criteria C
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The structural remains of the Greenway lightstation have the