Kwinana Police Station (fmr)

Physical Description

The former Kwinana Police Station is a single-storey timber-framed building of a residential scale and form. It has a low pitched gabled roof clad with terracotta tiles. A later addition, or enclosure, across the front of the building is painted brick with aluminium framed windows. The remainder of the building is weatherboard to dado height and fibrous board above. The door and window openings appear to be in the original locations although largely of a later aluminum manufacture. The building is surrounded with a high brick wall and gates on the Harley Street frontage and paved parking on the Pace Road elevation. The adjacent house at 27 Pace road is part of the same child care complex and is likely to have been the former police officers quarters.

History

As part of the establishment of the community in Kwinana (now Medina) in the early 1950s the state government provided essential services. The police station and quarters were built in 1954 in a style which was consistent with the adjacent homes. The first officers at the station were Sgt Graham from Northam and Constable Eddy who was previously serving in Central Perth. The police station functioned from this site until the mid 1990s when a new station was built on the corner of Sulphur Road and Meares Avenue. The former station and the adjacent former quarters were converted to use as a child care centre. Internal changes have not been viewed as part of this review. Aerial photographs of the site since the mid 20th century show there have been minimal changes to the form and extent of the building although the construction of play equipment at the rear of the former quarters was an initial change that has been continued.

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