HM Prison Dhurringile
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| Location | Murchison, Victoria, Australia |
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| Security class | Minimum Security |
| Capacity | 108 |
| Opened | 1965 |
| Managed by | Corrections Victoria |
HM Prison Dhurringile is a minimum security prison located on Murchison Road, Murchison, Victoria, Australia.
Situated 160 km north of Melbourne, the 68-room mansion, completed in 1877, was originally a homestead for a large farm. The house was completed for the Winter-Irving family, who were major landowners in the area. The house was built in conjunction with another, near-by, Winter-Irving mansion, Noorilim. Dhurringile was built in an Italianate style, to the design of Lloyd Taylor, in partnership with Frederick Wyatt, from bricks produced on site, with details completed in stucco render, and cast iron.
Dhurringile is of architectural significance as one of Victoria’s grandest homesteads and a fine example of the Victorian Italianate style. It is significant as a rare work of the short-lived but prominent architectural partnership of Lloyd Tayler and Wyatt. Dhurringile is significant as an early demonstration of the rise of the red face brick aesthetic which arose as a reaction to the predominant use of stucco in the previous decades.
Dhurringile and its outbuildings are of historical significance as an important example of a substantial homestead built on the proceeds of gold discoveries and subsequent pastoral wealth. It is significant for its associations with its owner John Winter and the prominent Winter and Winter-Irving families who were among the largest pastoral landholders in Victoria.
During World War II, it was used as an internment camp for 'alien civilians' and later for prisoners of war.[1]
After the war the property was used by the Presbyterian Church as a training camp for English and Scottish orphans, until it was purchased by the Victorian Government in 1965 for use as a minimum security prison. Over the years the grounds have been reduced to just over 1 km² (0.4 mile²).
Today, while the house is somewhat less-than, it's not hard to imagine the building as it might have been, as many of the original details are still in existence.
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- ^ *"HMAS SYDNEY and KORMORAN DOCUMENTS". Sea Power (Royal Australian Navy Archive). 1941. http://www.navy.gov.au/HMAS_SYDNEY_and_KORMORAN_DOCUMENTS. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
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