Historic Port Melbourne cop shop, lock-up for lease
The former Port Melbourne Police Station and bluestone lock-up is for lease, nearly three decades after the historic property was sold by the state government.
The Victorian-era holding at 111 Bay Street was recently vacated by McClusky Solicitors which occupied for more than 20 years before merging with Schembri Law.
Also with access to a laneway off Nott St, it spans 342 square metres across three buildings.
The main complex contains 206 sqm over two floors and contemporary north facing single level annex of 62 sqm.
The lock-up behind it, with 74 sqm, can also be accessed from Bay St.
There are also two car parks.
GrayJohnson’s Simon Regan is the agent.
This pocket of Port Melbourne is about four kilometres from the CBD (continues below).
Ex-cop shop for lease
The former police station and bluestone lock-up form part of the Port Melbourne Court House, Police Station and Lock-up heritage place, listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.
The police station dates to before 1864 – records describing it as one of Victoria’s first brick, two-storey properties of its type, built to an early Public Works Department design.
Victoria Police used it until the 1990s.
The heritage protection also covers the neighbouring 113-119 Bay St – the c1860 Port Melbourne Court House.
Together, the properties form part of the early government infrastructure around the foreshore, when Bay Street was the centre of Port Melbourne’s civic activity.
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