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Union Bank (fmr)

Author

City of Fremantle

Place Number

00899
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Location

4 High St Fremantle

Location Details

Cnr Cliff St

Local Government

Fremantle

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1889, Constructed from 1937

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
RHP - Does not warrant assessment Current 27 Oct 2017

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type Status Date Grading/Management More information
Category Description
Municipal Inventory Adopted 18 Sep 2000 Level 1B

Level 1B

The City of Fremantle has identified this place as being of exceptional cultural heritage significance in its own right within the context of Fremantle and its conservation is required. It is recommended that this place be considered for entry in the Heritage Council of Western Australia's Register of Heritage Places.

Statewide Bank Survey Completed 01 Nov 1997

Heritage Council
Classified by the National Trust Classified 27 May 1974

Heritage Council
Register of the National Estate Permanent 21 Mar 1978

Heritage Council

Statement of Significance

The place is historically significant as a former bank representing the development of Fremantle’s Old Port City as a centre of commerce and trade from the gold boom period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The place is significant because, when viewed from the street, it is a substantially intact example of a federation period commercial building which contributes to the very significant Old Port City of Fremantle. The place is of social significance as evidenced by its classification by the National Trust.

Physical Description

Two storey smooth rendered and Colorbond roofed building with balustraded parapet and a former chapel sited on the west side of the 1889 building. The original building has a truncated corner entrance and a decorative stucco gable edged with stucco brackets above pilasters, and a recessed arched doorway with a fanlight and a timber and glass door. There are arched timber double hung sash windows on the ground floor and double hung sash windows with stucco architraves and three arched windows at rear of building on the first floor.
The former chapel comprises a single storey painted brick building, with a low-pitched hipped tile roof and simple crenelation cornice. The west side of the façade features a mitred hip roof and a brick inbuilt cross above the arched entrance with two tongue and groove timber doors with large exposed hinges. The facade also has three metal-framed arch windows.

History

High Street was named by Surveyor General Roe - as was customary in English towns, the main street of the town was named High Street. Eastward from William Street the roadway was completed by convict labour after the Town Hall was built in 1887. High Street around the Town Hall closed to traffic in 1966. The High Street Mall was trialed in November 1973 and made a permanent pedestrian mall in 1975.
Designed by W. E. Robertson of Melbourne and completed in 1889, the Union Bank was one of the first banks to establish a major building in the west end of Fremantle. The bank bought the land in 1881. In 1930/1 the bank moved further east down High Street and the Flying Angel mission of seamen moved into its old premises.
In 1937 a chapel was built alongside the former bank which functioned for the following 30 years. In 1955 alterations and additions to the building were approved by Council. In 1974 the facade of the former bank was Classified by the National Trust.
Currently (2002), commercial, although not in use.

Condition

Good/Fair

Associations

Name Type Year From Year To
W E Robertson and Inskip of Melbourne. Architect - -

State Heritage Office library entries

Library Id Title Medium Year Of Publication
7902 Fremantle walks. Book 2006

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch General Specific
Present Use SOCIAL\RECREATIONAL Other Community Hall\Centre
Original Use COMMERCIAL Bank
Present Use COMMERCIAL Office or Administration Bldg

Architectural Styles

Style
Inter-War Spanish Mission
Federation Free Classical

Construction Materials

Type General Specific
Roof METAL Corrugated Iron
Wall BRICK Painted Brick
Wall RENDER Smooth
Wall STONE Limestone
Roof TILE Terracotta Tile
Wall BRICK Rendered Brick

Historic Themes

General Specific
OCCUPATIONS Commercial & service industries

Creation Date

30 May 1989

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

24 Feb 2020

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