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Enmore Park Plan of Management - Land

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Conservation <strong>Management</strong> Strategy<strong>Enmore</strong> <strong>Park</strong>23. Crazy-paved sandstone zone –corner <strong>of</strong> <strong>Enmore</strong> Road andVictoria RoadLikely to have been laid out at thetime <strong>of</strong> the construction <strong>of</strong> thesandstone archway, this area wasprobably formed in this crazypavedconfiguration to drawpeople’s attention to the parkentry. It is typical <strong>of</strong> paving <strong>of</strong> theinterwar period.Rating: Low – ModerateRetain and repair as required.24. <strong>Enmore</strong> Road bus shelterBuilt as part <strong>of</strong> the upgradingworks on the mid to late 1930s,this substantial shelter appearslargely unchanged from its originalcomposition (apart from notcontaining the long slatted benchseats formerly underneath it).The green benches behind thestructure were placed there insubsequent decades.A pathway formerly extended <strong>of</strong>fthe building to the existingpyramidal markers east <strong>of</strong> thestructure.The shelter is formed by twoashlar masonry pillars eightcourses high at each end betweenwhich was a faceted drinkingfountain (no longer in use).Rating: ModerateRetain as existing and repair asrequired with the advice <strong>of</strong> aconservation architect.Consider removal <strong>of</strong> greentimber benches along easternplatform behind building andthe re-establishment <strong>of</strong> slattedbenches under the ro<strong>of</strong> as inoriginal.25. Former sandstone fountainAccording to the Godden MackayHistoric Resources Survey 1990this item is: “A small sandstonefountain, set on an octagonalplinth, built in rough-facedmasonry” The fountain shaft isoctagonal…..The fountain datesfrom pre-1958”.Its provenance is not known, butits simple, stripped down stylesuggests modernist influences,possibly <strong>of</strong> the late 1920s.Rating: ModerateRetain and repair as required.Mayne-Wilson & Associates29Conservation <strong>Land</strong>scape Architects

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