Old Court Theatre, Scone

Old Court Theatre, Scone
Old Court Theatre, Scone
	Old Court Theatre, in 2015
Location	41 Kingdon Road, Scone, Upper Hunter Shire, New South Wales, Australia
Coordinates	32°03′08″S150°51′37″E / 32.0522°S 150.8602°E Coordinates: 32°03′08″S150°51′37″E / 32.0522°S 150.8602°E
Built	c. 1882
Owner	Scone Community Amateur Dramatic Society Inc.
New South Wales Heritage Register
	Official name: Old Court Theatre; Courthouse
Type	State heritage (built)
Designated	2 April 1999
Reference no.	340
Type	Courthouse
Category	Law Enforcement
	Location of Old Court Theatre, Scone in New South Wales

Last updated April 15, 2019

The Old Court Theatre is a heritage-listed former courthouse and now community theatre and playhouse located at 41 Kingdon Road, Scone, Upper Hunter Shire, New South Wales, Australia. It is also known as the Old Courthouse. The property is owned by Scone Community Amateur Dramatic Society Inc., and was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.^[1]

A courthouse is a building that is home to a local court of law and often the regional county government as well, although this is not the case in some larger cities. The term is common in North America. In most other English-speaking countries, buildings which house courts of law are simply called "courts" or "court buildings". In most of Continental Europe and former non-English-speaking European colonies, the equivalent term is a palace of justice.

Scone is a town in the Upper Hunter Shire in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. At the 2006 census, Scone had a population of 4,624 people. It is on the New England Highway north of Muswellbrook about 270 kilometres north of Sydney, and is part of the New England (federal) and New England (state) electorates. Scone is in a farming area and is also noted for breeding Thoroughbred racehorses. It is known as the 'Horse capital of Australia'.

The Upper Hunter Shire is a local government area in the Upper Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. The Shire was formed in May 2004 from the Scone Shire and parts of Murrurundi and Merriwa shires.

History

Built as a courthouse in c. 1882, when the original building ceased operating as a courthouse, it fell into disrepair and was even used at one point to store pesticides for the Prickly Pear Authority. In 2014, the Old Court House received new roof sheeting, gutters, eaves, render, internal and external painting and a disabled ramp through a $127,000 grant from Heritage NSW, $137,000 funding from the Upper Hunter Shire Council and a $10,000 donation from the Hunter Mutual Regional Bank. The building now serves as a multi-purpose function centre for lectures, plays, functions and debates.^[2]

Description

The front of the theatre building faces Kingdon Street, with a formal facade, flight of entry steps to the front portico, flanked by twin shrubs of may bush ( Spiraea cantonensis ). A low picket fence runs either side of the theatre's front along the boundary. To either side of the building is a grassed area with scattered tree plantings. To the left of the front facade is a golden rain tree ( Koelreuteria bipinnata ) and to the eastern boundary are a number of oleander ( Nerium oleander cv.) shrubs and to the right (west) and set back towards the rear of the front building is a Brazilian peppercorn tree ( Schinus molle var. areira).^[1]

A facade is generally one exterior side of a building, usually the front. It is a foreign loan word from the French façade, which means "frontage" or "face".

A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea was widely used in ancient Greece and has influenced many cultures, including most Western cultures.

Koelreuteria bipinnata, also known as Chinese flame tree, Chinese golden rain tree, Bougainvillea golden-rain tree, is a species of Koelreuteria native to southern China. It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree growing between 7–20 metres tall. It is few branched and is one of the few trees that bloom in summer. The tree can live 50 to 150 years.

To the Aberdeen Street (western) side of the property, the side of the theatre building, are two rear outbuildings including a single storey brick building close to the theatre and a corrugated iron shed further to the rear of that. Behind (i.e. rear of these are a grove of silky oak ( Grevillea robusta ) trees as well as the pepper tree noted above.^[3]^[1]

Corrugated galvanised iron or steel is a building material composed of sheets of hot-dip galvanised mild steel, cold-rolled to produce a linear corrugated pattern in them. Although it is still popularly called "iron" in the UK, the material used is actually steel, and only the surviving vintage sheets may actually be made up of 100% iron. The corrugations increase the bending strength of the sheet in the direction perpendicular to the corrugations, but not parallel to them, because the steel must be stretched to bend perpendicular to the corrugations. Normally each sheet is manufactured longer in its strong direction.

A shed is typically a simple, single-story roofed structure in a back garden or on an allotment that is used for storage, hobbies, or as a workshop. Sheds vary considerably in the complexity of their construction and their size, from small open-sided tin-roofed structures to large wood-framed sheds with shingled roofs, windows, and electrical outlets. Sheds used on farms or in industry can be large structures. The main types of shed construction are metal sheathing over a metal frame, plastic sheathing and frame, all-wood construction, and vinyl-sided sheds built over a wooden frame.

Grevillea robusta, commonly known as the southern silky oak, silk oak or silky oak, silver oak or Australian silver oak, is a flowering plant in the family Proteaceae. It is a tree, the largest species in its genus but is not closely related to the true oaks, Quercus. It is a native of eastern coastal Australia, growing in riverine, subtropical and dry rainforest environments.

Heritage listing

The Old Court Theatre was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.^[1]

The New South Wales State Heritage Register, also known as NSW State Heritage Register, is a heritage list of places in the state of New South Wales, Australia, that are protected by New South Wales legislation, generally covered by the Heritage Act, 1977 (NSW) and its 2010 amendments. The register is administered by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, a division of the Government of New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment.

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References

1 2 3 4 "Old Court Theatre". New South Wales State Heritage Register . Office of Environment and Heritage. H00340. Retrieved 1 June 2018.
↑ Holden, Tash (23 October 2014). "Old court, new life". Scone Advocate. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
↑ Read, Stuart. 29 July 2009.

Bibliography

Attribution

This Wikipedia article was originally based on Old Court Theatre , entry number 00340 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales and Office of Environment and Heritage 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence , accessed on 1 June 2018.

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[nswshr-340-1] 1 2 3 4 "Old Court Theatre". New South Wales State Heritage Register . Office of Environment and Heritage. H00340. Retrieved 1 June 2018.

[2] Holden, Tash (23 October 2014). "Old court, new life". Scone Advocate. Retrieved 6 July 2018.

[nswshr-340-1889-3] Read, Stuart. 29 July 2009.