YNP Tram Cottage

Author

City of Wanneroo

Place Number

02679

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Location

3499 Wanneroo Rd Yanchep

Location Details

Heritage Area

Local Government

Wanneroo

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1913

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type	Status	Date	Documents	More information
Heritage List	Adopted	07 Nov 2016
State Register	Registered	16 Jun 1992	Register Entry	Heritage Council

Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

Type	Status	Date	Documents
(no listings)

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type	Status	Date	Grading/Management		More information
Type	Status	Date	Category	Description	More information
Municipal Inventory	Adopted	25 May 1994	Category 1A	Category 1A This place has been entered in the Heritage Council of Western Australia's Register of Heritage Places. All development applications must be referred to the Development Committee of the Heritage Council for approval. This place is considered by the City of Wanneroo to be of exceptional significance to the City and its conservation is required. The place should be conserved in accordance with the principles of the Burra Charter (The Australia ICOMOS for the conservation of places of cultural significance) which has been accepted by Council as the guiding document for the conservation of places of cultural heritage significance. It is recommended that a conservation plan or policy be prepared and adopted by Council and that any proposals for development be in accordance with its recommendations. If a conservation plan has not been prepared, Council may request the preparation of a conservation plan or policy prior to considering any proposed development of the place. The conservation plan or policy must be prepared in accordance with a brief approved by the Council and must be reviewed, approved and adopted by Council prior to approval to develop.
Statewide Railway Heritage Surve	Completed	01 Mar 1994			Heritage Council
Classified by the National Trust	Classified	06 Apr 1987			Heritage Council

Statement of Significance

Refer to HCWA's Assessment Documentation of Places for Entry in the Register of Heritage Places.

Physical Description

The tram body has zinculume placed on the timber roof. Body is timber framed with lower sides clad
with horizontal timber planking and the window line clad with galvanised iron cladding. Most of the
windows on the sides have been replaced by aluminium framed windows but eh ends and doors still
have original windows. Stonework (relocated from the old site in Boomerang Gorge) has been reused
around the base of the tram. The early chimney was also moved. It is painted green, the colour it was
in the first years of its park use.

Only two remain, used jointly with a concrete floor between them and covered by an open timber frame with corrugated iron roof. Each tram has been set on a stone base, 12' x 18' high at the front and sides and considerably higher at the rear where the ground slopes steeply to the valley below. One tram has been adapted for sleeping accommodation, and the other for living. They stand in a pleasant bushland area with the ruins of a cultivated garden nearby.

History

Tram 57 is one of eight tram bodies transported to Yanchep in 1933 to be used as accommodation. It
had been built in the Railway Workshops at Midland in 1913 in the first batch of trams to ever be
completely built in WA. After initial use by sustenance workers it was soon used for general
accommodation. By the mid 1980s only two trams remained due to bushfires. In 1990 the two trams
were moved from Boomerang Gorge and the one that remained in the National Park was relocated
next to Gloucester Lodge. There the tram was repaired including replacement of damaged 'roof sticks'
(ribs). In 2004 CALM undertook the exterior restoration of the tram body and built a roof over the tram
to protect it from damage by the weather.

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch	General	Specific
Original Use	Transport\Communications	Rail: Other
Present Use	Transport\Communications	Rail: Other

Construction Materials

Type	General	Specific
Other	METAL	Other Metal
Other	TIMBER	Other Timber
Roof	METAL	Zincalume
Other	STONE	Other Stone

Creation Date

30 May 1989

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

20 Apr 2021

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