HOUSE, 7 KNUTSFORD STREET

Author

City of Fremantle

Place Number

22760

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Location

7 Knutsford St Fremantle

Location Details

Local Government

Fremantle

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1896

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type	Status	Date	Documents	More information
Heritage List	YES	08 Mar 2007

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	18 Sep 2000	Level 3	Level 3 The City of Fremantle has identified this place as being of some cultural heritage significance for its contribution to the heritage of Fremantle in terms of its individual or collective aesthetic, historic, social or scientific significance, and /or its contribution to the streetscape, local area and Fremantle. Its contribution to the urban context should be maintained and enhanced.

Statement of Significance

The place is an example of a stone residence that has been altered but still represents the expansion of Fremantle in the gold boom period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The place makes a major contribution to the heritage character of the Monument Hill locality.

Physical Description

Single storey stone with tuck pointed brick quoining to window and door openings house which sits above and is set back from the pavement. The tiled (not original) hipped and faceted bay roof which extends from the façade, has two rendered chimneys with corbelling extant. The dropped verandah is supported by timber posts onto a rendered low wall balustrade which is not original.

History

Thomas Birrell and Isabella Birrell Grey (or Gray) owned and occupied a cottage later described as a villa on lot 2 of 824. Thomas Birrell Grey was an accountant.

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

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

Construction Materials

Type	General	Specific
Wall	STONE	Limestone
Wall	BRICK	Pointed Brick
Roof	TILE	Aluminium Tile

Historic Themes

General	Specific
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY	Settlements

Creation Date

02 Dec 2003

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Approved

Last Update

28 Feb 2020

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