Local Government
Subiaco
Region
Metropolitan
91-97 Rokeby Rd Subiaco
Subiaco
Metropolitan
Constructed from 1910
Type | Status | Date | Documents | More information |
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Heritage Area | YES | 15 Oct 2013 |
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Type | Status | Date | Grading/Management | More information | |
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Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 04 Feb 2003 |
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The place represents the historic development of Rokeby Road as a commercial street from the 1890s and early 1900s. It is a visually imposing commercial building in the Federation Free Classical style with some intact shop fronts and decorative pediment.
Double storey commercial building comprising four shops with shop windows and re-entrant doors. Framed canopy over. Painted brickwork and rendered brickwork to upper level. Double hung windows in pairs between rendered columns. Cornice mouldings to walls and columns. Closed balustrading and recessed shapes to parapet. Two pediments with ornate mouldings.
As at 1910, the shops were bootmaker, watchmaker & jeweller, draper & baker.
Subiaco began to develop as a residential and commercial area in the 1890s, with the first buildings being established along the railway line. In 1895 Rokeby Road was not yet gazetted and Hay Street was called Broome Road. By the turn of the century most of the main roads in central Subiaco were built, including Rokeby, Heytsebury, Hamersley, Bagot, Townshend, Park and Nicholson Roads. Many businesses had been established in Broome Road. Broome Road was named after Governor Broome, and was renamed Hay Street after Vice-Secretary of Colonies, 1829.
There were many land releases in the late 1890s and early 1900s as Subiaco become a popular place to settle, and businesses were attracted to the opportunity of opening in a new but stable suburb. The Rokeby Road and Hay Street commercial area was firmly established by 1915.
Over the years the nature of businesses have changed. Originally there were estate agents, dressmakers, tailors, confectioners, drapers, grocers, restaurateurs and bakers; in fact most shopping could be done without leaving the suburb.
(Sources: Wise's Post Office Directory 1893-1915; Real Estate Maps, Battye Library Collection; Spillman, Ken, Identity Prized: A History of Subiaco, City of Subiaco, UWA Press, 1985, pp. 92-110; Chate, A. H., History of Subiaco, c1952.)
Ref ID No | Ref Name | Ref Source | Ref Date |
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Rokeby Road and Hay Street Heritage Area Review | Stephen Carrick Architects | August 2023 | |
Assessment of the Rokeby Road and Hay Street Heritage Area | Griffiths Architects | January 2013 |
Individual Building or Group
Epoch | General | Specific |
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Present Use | COMMERCIAL | Shop\Retail Store {single} |
Original Use | COMMERCIAL | Shop\Retail Store {single} |
Style |
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Federation Free Classical |
Type | General | Specific |
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Wall | BRICK | Painted Brick |
Wall | BRICK | Rendered Brick |
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