House 113 Shenton Road

Parent Place or Precinct

25804 Shenton Road Heritage Area 6

Statement of Significance

Shenton Road Heritage Area 6 demonstrates an identifiable aesthetic of Federation architecture forming a discrete streetscape environment of substantial residences.

Physical Description

Single storey painted face brick with a hipped roof with a front gable feature with half-timbered roughcast The half front verandah is bullnose. Front brick fence.

History

Prior to European settlement the locality of Swanbourne and the wider district of Claremont was known as Mooro and was associated with aboriginal people of the Whudjuck Nyungar group. The Swan River Colony was established in 1829 and the area where the Town of Claremont is located did not start to develop until the 1850s. This is when a subdivision occurred to provide accommodation and land for the Pensioner Guards who had accompanied convicts to the colony. From 1875 onwards large tracts of land were acquired by speculators and in the 1880s and 1890s these lots were further subdivided for housing lots. Initially the people who took up these lots were the moderately wealthy and the merchants of the day.

The area was served by the Perth to Fremantle Road from the 1860s and the completion of the Perth to Fremantle railway in 1881 enabled the area to be more densely settled. The municipality of Claremont was declared in 1898 and at this time the majority of the population was clustered around Stirling Highway and Bay View Terrace. During the early 1900s many of Claremont’s major buildings and institutions were established.

The Swanbourne area became more settled in the early 1900s with the advent of the railway and the establishment of the Claremont North State School in 1905 in Devon Road. The name Swanbourne commemorates the English home of Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Baron of Cottesloe. He was the brother of Captain Charles Howe Fremantle RN, after whom Fremantle is named.

When the Town of Claremont Rate Books commence in 1903 there were a total of 45 houses already built in Shenton Road. The majority of the 19 houses on the northern side of the street were concentrated between Devon Road and Stirling Road and were mainly brick with a few also in weatherboard and stone. By 1915, the end of the ‘Consolidation’ period, there were a further nine houses built in the street and four of these nine were built on the northern side between Derby Road and Servetus Street.

Population and housing grew steadily with 701 households or businesses in 1905, 872 in 1910 and 1,240 in 1915. The largest area containing houses of this period is the area bounded by Mary, Gugeri, Melville and Loch Streets and Stirling Highway. Surviving heritage homes from this period indicate that housing types were mainly Federation Bungalow and Federation Queen Anne with three to five rooms.

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