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Bulwer Avenue Precinct

Author

City of Vincent

Place Number

18497
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Location

3, 5-7, 9, 11, 13, 17, 19 Bulwer Av Perth

Location Details

This place record does NOT contain 1 & 21 Bulwer Av (This record is created based on the MI record). The parent record P8594 (DOES contain 1 & 21 Bulwer Av) and is in the HCWA Assessment Program.

Local Government

Vincent

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1895 to 1922

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type Status Date Documents More information
Heritage List YES 12 Sep 2006

Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

Type Status Date Documents
(no listings)

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type Status Date Grading/Management More information
Category Description
Municipal Inventory Adopted 12 Sep 2006 Category A

Category A

Conservation Essential

Statement of Significance

Bulwer Avenue Group is a notable and intact turn of the twentieth century development of detached houses in the Federation Anglo Dutch and Arts & Crafts styles, which occupies the length of a whole streetblock opposite the Highgate Primary & Infant Schools. The subdivision was made possible by transfering a strip of land from the schools to enable Bulwer Avenue to be developed as a public road.

Physical Description

This small precinct runs along the west side of Bulwer Avenue opposite Highgate Primary School. The west side of Bulwer Avenue comprises of 10 houses, one with an attached shop (there is no house numbered 7 in the street), however the house and shop attached at No.1 Bulwer Avenue and the house at No. 21 Avenue have not been included in the heritage listing as a result of a resoultion made at an Ordinary Meeting of Council held on 7 November 2006. The houses were all built in either one of two distinct building styles. There are two sets of three almost identical Federation Arts and Crafts style houses at each end of the block, and a set of four Federation Anglo Dutch style houses in the centre of the street. The houses are all double fronted, with gabled projections and simple verandahs. The Federation Anglo Dutch style houses are of stone, with brick quoins and a faceted bay window under a Dutch gable. The houses have pairs of chimneys and four paneled timber front doors. Original windows are double hung. The Federation Arts and Crafts style influenced houses are of a similar design but their front bays are treated as low parapeted towers roofed with a mitred hip. The group has a continuous 4.5 metre setback from the street with residential garden settings. No. 19 has been altered to appear as a Federation Bungalow style residence. No. 11 has been converted and enlarged to form two separate residences.

History

Bulwer Avenue and Bulwer Street were named in 1858 after Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, first Baron Lytton, a 19th Century novelist. Lytton was Secretary for State for the Colonies during the years 1858 - 59. part of this road was formerly in the locality of East Perth, but due to boundary changes, it is now in the locality of Perth. Ten houses were built on the west side of Bulwer Ave between 1895 and 1898, on part of Lots N115 and N139, in the area known originally as Highgate Hill. Opposite was the Highgate Primary School, which opened in 1895. The rapid rise in resident numbers in the area was reflected in a rapid increase in principals at the school. So much so that a separate infants's school was built in 1900 and addtion to both schools followed until 1913. In 1922, a shop was added to the residence at No 1. The land on Bulwer Avenue was owned by Anastasia Murphy. Anastasia and her husband Michael, with their six children, had established a market garden in the area. Following Michael's death in 1880, Anastasia continued to lease out the land for gardening. In the early 1890s, she subdivided some of it, creating the Bulwer Park Villa subdivision. Hall, Dallen & Todd Ltd, land and real estate agents, handled the sale of the lots. H. C. Ashton, of Ashton Brothers Contractors, built No. 1, and may have been responsible for the other houses of the same design. A number of the houses were given names, such as 'Dovedale' (No.11), 'Lytton' (No.15), 'Atherstone' (No. 1), 'Roylyn' (No.3), 'Boscobel' (No.5) and 'Bronte' (No.17). In the Post Office Directory for 1897 Harry L. Hall, Joseph Hine and Hentry G. Trenchard are listed as living in the street plus George R. Turner at 'Lytton'. No numbers are given. In 1901, the occupants of the houses were a manager, agent, clerks, a civil servant, solicitor, engineer and gentleman. These people were representative of the middle class in Perth at this time. In 1922, the shop at No. 1 was leased to Ida James, who ran a confectionary business for a short time. In 1949 the residents were Arthur Cochrance, a painter (No.3), Mrs Flora A .Goddard (No. 50, Mrs Mary Thornton (No. 9), H.J Hartshorn at No. 11 and Mrs M.E Detrich at No. 11a, Edward G. Lewis and Mrs Lilly Lee at No. 15, Mrs Maria and Burns Noble (No. 27) and Mrs Ivy Wiley (No. 19). European migrants occupied some of the houses in the 1950s and 1960s, and David Helfgott's family lived at No. 13 during this period. A number of the houses have been upgraded in recent years, and more are owner-occupied.

Integrity/Authenticity

Mostly intact or redeemable

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch General Specific
Present Use RESIDENTIAL Single storey residence
Original Use RESIDENTIAL Single storey residence

Architectural Styles

Style
Federation Anglo-Dutch
Federation Arts and Crafts

Construction Materials

Type General Specific
Wall BRICK Common Brick
Wall STONE Limestone
Roof METAL Corrugated Iron
Other TIMBER Other Timber

Historic Themes

General Specific
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY Settlements
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY Land allocation & subdivision

Creation Date

22 Jul 2008

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

18 May 2017

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