List of heritage listed buildings in Melbourne
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This is a non-exhaustive list of buildings in Melbourne, Australia
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 and surrounding suburbs listed on the Victorian Heritage Register
Victorian Heritage Register
The Victorian Heritage Register lists places of cultural heritage significance to the State of Victoria, Australia. It has statutory weight under the Heritage Act 1995 which establishes Heritage Victoria as the permit authority...

. This the highest level of protection afforded to a building in the state of Victoria. A far greater number of buildings and precincts are covered by Heritage Overlay
Heritage Overlay
A Heritage Overlay or HO is one of a number of planning scheme overlays contained in the Victorian Planning Provisions, for use in planning schemes in Victoria, Australia...

s in local government planning schemes, though these may not have the same level of protection.

Public buildings

  • City Baths
    City Baths, Melbourne
    City Baths, in Melbourne, Australia, is a historically significant building. Located at 420 Swanston Street, it is of architectural significance.The Melbourne City Council opened the first Melbourne City Baths on 9 January 1860, which housed public baths...

  • Eastern Hill Fire Station
    Eastern Hill Fire Station
    Eastern Hill Fire Station is the central fire station of Melbourne, Australia, located in on the corner of Victoria Parade and Gisborne Street, opposite St Peter's, Eastern Hill, one of the highest points in the city of Melbourne...

  • General Post Office
    General Post Office, Melbourne
    The Melbourne General Post Office , is a former post office in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia...

  • Government House
    Government House, Melbourne
    Government House, Melbourne is the office and official residence of the Governor of Victoria. It is set next to the Royal Botanic Gardens and surrounded by Kings Domain in Melbourne. It was the official residence of the Governor-General of Australia from 1901 to 1930...

  • HM Prison Pentridge
    HM Prison Pentridge
    HM Prison Pentridge was an Australian prison built in 1850 in Coburg, Victoria. The first prisoners arrived in 1851. The prison officially closed on 1 May 1997....

    , Coburg
    Coburg, Victoria
    Coburg is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moreland, although a handful of properties on Coburg's Eastern boundary are located in the City of Darebin...

  • Old Melbourne Magistrates' Court
  • National Gallery of Victoria
    National Gallery of Victoria
    The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery and museum in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia. Since December 2003, NGV has operated across two sites...

  • Old Melbourne Gaol
  • Parliament House
    Parliament House, Melbourne
    Parliament House in Melbourne, located at Spring Street in East Melbourne at the edge of the Melbourne city centre, has been the seat of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia, since 1855 .- History :In 1851, even before the colony of Victoria acquired full parliamentary self-government, Governor...

  • Russell Street Police Headquarters (former)
    Russell Street Police Headquarters
    Russell Street Police Headquarters in Melbourne, Australia was for many years the headquarters of the Victoria Police before they were moved to William Street in about 1990. The main multi-storey brick building located on the west of the site was constructed 1940-1943 in the Art Deco style by...

  • Royal Exhibition Building
    Royal Exhibition Building
    The Royal Exhibition Building is a World Heritage Site-listed building in Melbourne, Australia, completed in 1880. It is located at 9 Nicholson Street in the Carlton Gardens, flanked by Victoria, Nicholson, Carlton and Rathdowne Streets, at the north-eastern edge of the central business district...

  • Shrine of Remembrance
    Shrine of Remembrance
    The Shrine of Remembrance, located in Kings Domain on St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Australia was built as a memorial to the men and women of Victoria who served in World War I and is now a memorial to all Australians who have served in war...

  • State Library of Victoria
    State Library of Victoria
    The State Library of Victoria is the central library of the state of Victoria, Australia, located in Melbourne. It is on the block bounded by Swanston, La Trobe, Russell, and Little Lonsdale streets, in the northern centre of the central business district...

  • Supreme Court of Victoria
  • Titles Office (former)
  • Old Treasury Building
    Old Treasury Building, Melbourne
    The Old Treasury Building on Spring Street in Melbourne, was once home to the Treasury Department of the Government of Victoria, but is now a museum of Melbourne history, known as the Old Treasury Building.-History:...


Town Halls

  • Box Hill Town Hall
    Box Hill Town Hall
    The Box Hill Town Hall is a landmark civic building located on Whitehorse Road, Box Hill, Victoria, Australia. Designed in the Neo-Grec style by architects JS Gawler and JCA Isbett, the town hall was built between 1934 and 1935...

  • Collingwood Town Hall
    Collingwood Town Hall
    Collingwood Town Hall is a civic building located on Hoddle Street in Abbotsford, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia.The hall was built between 1885 and 1890 to the design of local architects George R. Johnson in the Second Empire style, rich in detail and prominent mansard roofs and pyramid domes...

  • Fitzroy Town Hall
    Fitzroy Town Hall
    Fitzroy Town Hall is a civic building located in Napier Street in Fitzroy, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia.It was constructed in two separate stages. The first consisted of a hall and tower which was designed by William J. Ellis and built in 1863...

  • Footscray Town Hall
    Footscray Town Hall
    Footscray Town Hall, also known as Maribyrnong Town Hall since council amalgamations in the 1990s, is a civic building located on Napier Street in Footscray, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. The hall was built in 1936 to the design of architect Joseph Plottel in the Romanesque Revival—Richardson...

  • Melbourne Town Hall
    Melbourne Town Hall
    Melbourne Town Hall is the central municipal building of the City of Melbourne, Australia, in the State of Victoria. It is located on the northeast corner of Swanston and Collins Streets, in the central business district. It is the seat of the Local Government Area of the City of Melbourne...

  • Prahran Town Hall
    Prahran Town Hall
    Prahran Town Hall is a civic building located on the corner of Chapel Street and Greville Street in Prahran, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia....

  • South Melbourne Town Hall
    South Melbourne Town Hall
    South Melbourne Town Hall is a civic building located at Bank Place in South Melbourne, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. It is of state heritage significance to Victoria being listed on the Victorian Heritage Register .-Architecture:...


Railway stations

  • Auburn station
    Auburn railway station, Melbourne
    Auburn is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, located in the suburb of Hawthorn East on the Lilydale, Belgrave and Alamein railway lines...

  • Caulfield station
  • Essendon station
  • Flinders Street station
    Flinders Street Station
    Flinders Street Station is the central railway station of the suburban railway network of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is on the corner of Flinders and Swanston Streets next to the Yarra River in the heart of the city, stretching from Swanston Street to Queen Street and covering two city...

  • Footscray station
  • Glenferrie station
  • Hawthorn station
    Hawthorn railway station, Melbourne
    Hawthorn is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located on the Lilydale, Belgrave, and Alamein lines, at Burwood and Evansdale Roads in the suburb of Hawthorn...

  • Malvern station
  • North Melbourne station
    North Melbourne railway station
    North Melbourne is a railway station located on the northern edge of the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. The station is the point through which pass the west and north-west bound Craigieburn, Flemington Racecourse, Sydenham, Upfield, Werribee and Williamstown suburban railway...

  • Williamstown station
    Williamstown railway station, Melbourne
    Williamstown is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia located in the suburb of Williamstown, and is the terminus of the Williamstown railway line...

  • Windsor station
    Windsor railway station, Melbourne
    Windsor is a railway station in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It serves the Sandringham railway line and is located in the suburb of Windsor. The station is near the intersection of Chapel Street and Dandenong Road, and is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.-Platforms and services:Platform...


Institutional buildings

  • Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy
    Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy
    The Emily McPherson College of Domestic Economy was an Australian domestic science college for women, in Melbourne, Victoria.It was officially opened on 27 April 1927 by Her Royal Highness Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Duchess of York, and later Queen Consort....

  • The Mac.Robertson Girls' High School
  • Melbourne Grammar School
    Melbourne Grammar School
    Melbourne Grammar School is an independent, Anglican, day and boarding school predominantly for boys, located in South Yarra and Caulfield, suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia....

  • Melbourne High School
  • Melbourne Trades Hall, Carlton
    Carlton, Victoria
    Carlton is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Melbourne...

  • Ormond College
    Ormond College (University of Melbourne)
    Ormond College is the largest of the residential colleges of the University of Melbourne. It is home to 332 undergraduates, 30 postgraduates and 27 professorial/academic residents.-Establishment:...

  • Kew Lunatic Asylum
    Kew Asylum
    Kew Lunatic Asylum is a decommissioned psychiatric hospital located between Princess Street and Yarra Boulevard in Kew, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Operational from 1871 to 1988, Kew was one of the largest asylums ever built in Australia. Later known as Willsmere, the complex of buildings...


Commercial buildings

  • BHP House (former)
  • Block Arcade
    Block Arcade, Melbourne
    Block Arcade is a heritage shopping arcade in Melbourne, Victoria. Melbourne's Golden Mile heritage walk runs through the arcade.It forms a short, narrow laneway, connecting Collins Street to Little Collins Street in the central business district of Melbourne...

  • Bryant and May Factory
    Bryant and May Factory, Melbourne
    The Bryant and May Factory is located in the suburb of Cremorne in Melbourne, Australia. It was constructed in 1909 as the Empire Works to a design by prolific Melbourne architect William Pitt...

    , Richmond
    Richmond, Victoria
    Richmond is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Yarra...

  • Capitol House and Cinema
  • Coops (Melbourne Central) Shot Tower
    Coops (Melbourne Central) Shot Tower
    The Coops Shot Tower is located in the heart of the Melbourne CBD. It was completed in 1888 and is 50 metres high. The historic building was saved from demolition in 1973 and was incorporated into the vast Melbourne Central complex in 1991 underneath an 84 m-high conical glass roof.Coop's...

  • Duke of Wellington Hotel
  • ES&A (Gothic) Bank
  • Gordon House
  • Olderfleet Building
  • Orica House (formerly ICI house)
  • Manchester Unity Building
    Manchester Unity Building
    The Manchester Unity Building is a Art Deco skyscraper in Melbourne, Australia, constructed in 1932.-History:The site, on the north-west corner of the intersection of Collins Street and Swanston Street, was purchased by the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows in 1928, reportedly for the sum of £250,000...

  • National Mutual Life Association Building (former)
  • Queen Victoria Market
    Queen Victoria Market
    The Queen Victoria Market is a major landmark in Melbourne, Australia, and at around seven hectares is the largest open air market in the Southern Hemisphere. The Market is significant to Melbourne's culture and heritage and has been listed on the Victorian Heritage Register...

  • Rialto Towers
    Rialto Towers
    The Rialto Towers is the second-tallest reinforced concrete building and the tallest office building in the Southern Hemisphere, when measured to its roof...

  • Royal Arcade
    Royal Arcade, Melbourne
    Royal Arcade is a heritage shopping arcade in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria. Originally constructed in 1869, the arcade connects Little Collins Street to the Bourke Street Mall, with a perpendicular passage running to Elizabeth Street in the west...

  • Safe Deposit Building
  • Windsor Hotel

Theatres and cinemas

  • Astor Cinema
    The Astor Theatre
    The Astor Theatre is a classic, single-screen cinema located in the inner Melbourne suburb of St Kilda, that has a long and illustrious history....

    , St Kilda
    St Kilda, Victoria
    St Kilda is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Port Phillip...

  • Athenaeum Theatre
    Athenaeum, Melbourne
    The Athenaeum or Melbourne Athenaeum is one of the oldest public institutions in Victoria, Australia, founded in 1839. The first President was Captain William Lonsdale, the first Patron was the Superintendent of Port Philip, Charles La Trobe and the first books were donated by Vice-President Henry...

  • Forum Theatre
    Forum Theatre
    The Forum Theatre is a theatre located on the corner of Flinders Street and Russell Street in the central business district of Melbourne, Australia. The building was designed by American architect John Eberson, who has designed many theatres across the globe, along with a local architectural firm...

  • Her Majesty's Theatre
    Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne
    Her Majesty's Theatre is a 1706 seat theatre in Melbourne, Australia. Built in 1886, it is located at 219 Exhibition Street, Melbourne. It is classified by the National Trust of Australia and is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register....

  • Palais Theatre
    Palais Theatre
    The Palais Theatre is a former cinema, now functioning exclusively as a concert venue, located in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia. With a capacity of 2,896 people, it is the largest seated theatre in Australia....

    , St Kilda
    St Kilda, Victoria
    St Kilda is an inner city suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Port Phillip...

  • Princess Theatre
    Princess Theatre, Melbourne
    The Princess Theatre is a 1488-seat theatre in Melbourne, Australia.It is listed by the National Trust of Australia and is on the Victorian Heritage Register.-History:...

  • Regent Theatre
    Regent Theatre, Melbourne
    The Regent Theatre is a 2162 seat theatre in Melbourne, Australia. It is listed by the National Trust of Australia and is on the Victorian Heritage Register.-History:...

  • Victorian Arts Centre
  • Capitol Theatre
    Capitol Theatre, Melbourne
    Opened in 1924, The Capitol Theatre is a spectacularly designed single screen cinema located in Melbourne, Australia . On 20 May 1999, it was purchased by Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology , and is currently used for both university lectures and cultural events such as film and comedy festivals...


Religious buildings

  • Collins Street Baptist Church
    Collins Street Baptist Church
    Collins Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in central Melbourne, Australia. Founded on this site in 1845, it is the oldest Baptist church in Victoria...

  • East Melbourne Synagogue
  • Scot's Church
    Scots' Church, Melbourne
    The Scots' Church, a Presbyterian church in Melbourne, Australia, was the first Presbyterian Church to be built in the Port Phillip District . It is located in Collins Street and is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Australia...

  • St Francis' Church
  • St Patricks Cathedral
    St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne
    St Patrick's Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia, and seat of its archbishop, currently Denis J. Hart. The building is known internationally as a leading example of the Gothic Revival style of architecture.In 1974 Pope Paul VI...

  • St Pauls Cathedral
    St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne
    St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne, is the metropolitical and cathedral church of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, Victoria in Australia. It is the seat of the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne and Metropolitan of the Province of Victoria...

  • The Mission to Seafarers
  • Wesley Church
    Wesley Church, Melbourne
    Wesley Church is a Uniting Church in the centre of Melbourne, in the State of Victoria, Australia.Wesley Church was originally built as the central church of the Wesleyan movement in Victoria. It is named after John Wesley , the founder of Methodism...


Houses

  • Bishopscourt
    Bishopscourt, East Melbourne
    Bishopscourt is a large colonial mansion, located on Clarendon Street in East Melbourne, Australia.Designed by Newson & Blackburn using blue stone in a style of gothic architecture, it was completed in 1853. The red brick wing was added in 1903....

    , East Melbourne
    East Melbourne, Victoria
    East Melbourne is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, adjacent to Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Melbourne. At the 2006 Census, East Melbourne had a population of 4,330....

  • Como House, South Yarra
    South Yarra, Victoria
    South Yarra is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area are the Cities of Stonnington and Melbourne...

  • Frognall, Canterbury
    Canterbury, Victoria
    Canterbury is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Boroondara...

  • Labassa, Caulfield North
    Caulfield North, Victoria
    Caulfield North is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Glen Eira. At the 2006 Census, Caulfield North had a population of 14,034....

  • Lalor House, Richmond
    Richmond, Victoria
    Richmond is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Yarra...

  • Raheen, Hawthorn
    Hawthorn, Victoria
    Hawthorn is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Boroondara...

  • Rippon Lea Estate
    Rippon Lea Estate
    Rippon Lea Estate is a historic property located in Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia. It is under the care of the National Trust of Australia.It was built in 1868 for Sir Frederick Sargood, a wealthy Melbourne businessman, politician and philanthropist...

    , Elsternwick
    Elsternwick, Victoria
    Elsternwick is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Glen Eira...

  • Rupertswood
    Rupertswood
    Rupertswood is a mansion and country estate located in Sunbury on the outskirts of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. It is well known as the birthplace of The Ashes, awarded to the winning team in cricket Test match series between Australia and England. Rupertswood is one of the largest houses...

    , Sunbury
    Sunbury, Victoria
    Sunbury is a regional city, located north-west of Melbourne's central business district, in the state of Victoria, Australia. Its Local Government Area is the City of Hume. At the 2006 Census, Sunbury had a population of 31,000...

  • Stonnington, Malvern
    Malvern, Victoria
    Malvern is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 8 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Stonnington. At the 2006 Census, Malvern had a population of 9,422.-History:...

  • Valentine's Mansion; now Caulfield Grammar School
    Caulfield Grammar School
    Caulfield Grammar School is an independent, co-educational, Anglican, day and boarding school, located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1881 as a boys' school, Caulfield began admitting girls exactly one hundred years later...

     - Malvern Campus
  • Werribee Park Mansion, Werribee
    Werribee, Victoria
    Werribee is a city in Melbourne, Australia, 32 km south-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Wyndham. At the 2006 Census, Werribee had a population of 36,641. Statistically, Werribee is considered part of Greater Melbourne.Werribee is...


Sporting grounds and grandstands

  • Melbourne Cricket Ground
    Melbourne Cricket Ground
    The Melbourne Cricket Ground is an Australian sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne and is home to the Melbourne Cricket Club. It is the tenth largest stadium in the world, the largest in Australia, the largest stadium for playing cricket, and holds the world record for the highest light...

    , Jolimont
  • Michael Tuck Stand (Glenferrie Oval
    Glenferrie Oval
    Glenferrie Oval is an Australian rules football stadium located in Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.It is the historic home of and is synonymous with the Hawthorn Football Club, who played there from 1903 and as a VFL/AFL club from 1925–1973, and retained the ground as an...

    ), Hawthorn
    Hawthorn, Victoria
    Hawthorn is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Boroondara...

  • Main Grandstand (Brunswick Street Oval
    Brunswick Street Oval
    The Brunswick Street Oval, currently known as WT Peterson Community Oval, also known as the Fitzroy Cricket Ground is a cricket and Australian rules football ground located in Edinburgh Gardens in Fitzroy North, Victoria...

    ), North Fitzroy

Other structures

  • Luna Park
    Luna Park, Melbourne
    For other amusement parks of the same name, see Luna Park; for other uses of the phrase, see Luna Park Melbourne's Luna Park is a historic amusement park located on the foreshore of Port Phillip Bay in St Kilda, Victoria, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia...

  • Morell Bridge
    Morell Bridge
    The Morell Bridge is a bridge over the Yarra River in South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia. Completed in 1899 by John Monash and J. T. N. Anderson, it is notable for being the first bridge in Victoria to be built using reinforced concrete....

  • Newport Railway Workshops
    Newport Railway Workshops
    The Newport Railway Workshops is a facility in the Melbourne suburb of Newport, Victoria, Australia, that builds, maintains and refurbishes railway rollingstock. It is located between the Williamstown and Werribee railway lines.-History:...

  • Nylex Clock
    Nylex Clock
    The Nylex Clock is an iconic neon sign sitting atop malting storage silos in the suburb of Cremorne, Victoria, Australia. It is located adjacent to the northern bank of the Yarra River and the Monash Freeway and displays the time and temperature alternately. The text also alternates displaying the...

  • Olympic Swimming Stadium
  • Polly Woodside
    Polly Woodside
    Polly Woodside is a Belfast built, three-masted, iron-hulled barque, preserved in Melbourne, Australia and forming the central feature of the South Wharf precinct. The ship was originally built in Belfast by William J. Woodside and was launched in 1885...

  • Princes Bridge
    Princes Bridge, Melbourne
    Princes Bridge, originally Prince's Bridge, is an important bridge in central Melbourne, Australia that spans the Yarra River. It is built on the site of one of the oldest river crossings in Australia. The bridge connects Swanston Street on the north bank of the Yarra River to St Kilda Road on the...

  • Queensbridge
  • Richmond Power Station
    Richmond Power Station, Victoria
    Richmond Power Station is a Victorian era coal fired power station which operated on the banks of the Yarra River in Richmond, Victoria, Australia from its construction in 1891 until its closure in 1976. It was one of the first alternating current electricity generation plants in the state...

  • Sandridge Bridge
  • Sidney Myer Music Bowl
    Sidney Myer Music Bowl
    The Sidney Myer Music Bowl is an outdoor performance venue in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It is located in the lawns and gardens of Kings Domain, close to the Arts Centre and the Southbank entertainment precinct...

  • Station Pier
    Station Pier
    Station Pier is an historic pier on Port Phillip, in Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Opened in 1854, the pier is Melbourne's primary passenger terminal, servicing interstate ferries and cruise ships, and is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register....

  • St Kilda Pavilion
    St Kilda Pavilion
    The St Kilda Pavilion is a historic kiosk located at the end of St Kilda Pier, in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia. The kiosk was designed by James Charles Morell and built in 1904 by John W. Douglas. The kiosk was proposed and operated by Francis Parer. Until the 1930s the structure was widely...

  • Time Ball Tower
  • Victoria Dock
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