Longson House

Author

City of Swan

Place Number

04101

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Location

75 Swan St Guildford

Location Details

Municipal Inventory No: 425

Local Government

Swan

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1898

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type	Status	Date	Documents	More information
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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
Classified by the National Trust	Classified	06 May 1991			Heritage Council
Municipal Inventory	Adopted	10 Jul 1996	Significant	Significant Conservation of the place is desirable. Any alterations or extensions should be sympathetic to the heritage values of the place and original fabric whould be retained wherever possible.
Municipal Inventory	Adopted	30 Aug 2017	Category 3	Category 3 Some/Moderate Significance to the locality. Contributes to the heritage of the locality. Has some altered or modified elements, not necessarily detracting from the overall significance of the place.

Statement of Significance

House is significant for its unusual decorative detail which includes decorative plaster corbelling on chimneys and timber fretwork between verandah and roof. Building forms part of remnant building stock which makes up historic town's fabric.

Physical Description

'Longson House' originally had simple four room plan with central passage. House is brick/iron with Flemish bond brickwork. Roof has front gable over bay window with unusual timber fretwork spanning verandah and eaves in line with roof, detail not found elsewhere in Guildford. Roof steeply pitched and of corrugated iron. Chimneys have decorative plaster corbelling detail different from others in Guildford.

History

Built by Brittain (builder of Barracks, Cloisters, Perth Town Hall & Bishops House and who owned brickworks in East Perth, now Queens Gardens) for daughter Harriet and husband Edward Longson. Owned by family until 1954. Property has early garden plantings of fruit trees, vines, camellias. Tennis court originally located to west of home.

Mr Les Longson was Director of Swan Building Society and owned Bryan Print. It is reputed that when Mr & Mrs Longson returned from their honeymoon, Mrs Longson made her father alter the design as she had intended a double storey. The layout is the same as 53 Swan Street, but in reverse.

Integrity/Authenticity

High

Condition

Good

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch	General	Specific
Present Use	RESIDENTIAL	Other
Original Use	RESIDENTIAL	Other

Creation Date

02 Aug 1995

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Approved

Last Update

27 Oct 2017

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