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DUPLEX, 68 HAMPTON ROAD

Author

City of Fremantle

Place Number

23045
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Location

68 Hampton Rd 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
RHP - To be assessed Current 25 Jan 2006

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type Status Date Grading/Management More information
Category Description
Municipal Inventory Adopted 18 Sep 2000 Level 2

Level 2

The City of Fremantle has identified this place as being of considerable cultural heritage significance in its own right within the context of Fremantle and its conservation is a priority.

Statement of Significance

The place is of aesthetic value as a good example of an attached pair of residences dating from the period of expansion of Fremantle in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is representative of the typical workers' houses in the Fremantle area. The place contributes to a substantially intact late nineteenth and early twentieth century streetscape close to the centre of Fremantle.

Physical Description

Duplex, 66-68 Hampton Road is a single storey rendered attached pair with a zincalume hipped roof and two brick and rendered chimneys with corbelling. There is a dropped verandah supported on metal columns (not original) and rendered side walls. Both pairs have paneled timber front doors and two timber framed double hung sash windows.

History

Hampton Road was originally called Prison Road. It derives its name from John Stephen Hampton (1810-1869), the Governor of WA from 1862-68. He was previously Comptroller of Convicts in Tasmania. His son, G. E. Hampton, was Acting Comptroller-General of the Fremantle Convict Establishment.
Lot 5 of 742 was vacant in 1895 and owned by Joseph John Holmes and Robert Hardy Holmes. The following year two four room cottages were built on the Lot for the Holmes’. The occupants for the rate period 1896 were John Williams, a watchmaker and George Wise, a shoemaker. Both the Holmes owned the cottages until the early 1920s and in 1925/26 Joseph was the only owner of the cottages. In 1897 their tenants were Robert Jamieson, a mariner, and Charles Steitz, a manager at McBeans.
In 1905/06 Sydney Francis Steele, a hairdresser was the occupant of what was then 52 Hampton Road. In 1910/11 John Sheridan was the occupant and in 1915/16 Thomas Luff was the tenant. In 1925/26 Charles Read was the tenant.
By 1930/31 ownership had changed to Frank Taylor Higham and in this same rate period ownership again changed to Emily Skeahan. Charles Read was the occupant and by 1935/36 Adelaide Read was listed as the tenant.
In 1935 the street number changed to 34 Hampton Road. By 1940/41 and until at least 1945/56 Emily McSherry (nee Skeahan) was the owner and her tenant in this period was John Walker. In 1951/52 Steve Anthony Lopeski was the owner and John Walker remained as the tenant.
In 1951/52 the house number changed again to the current number.

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch General Specific
Present Use RESIDENTIAL Conjoined residence
Original Use RESIDENTIAL Conjoined residence

Architectural Styles

Style
Victorian Georgian

Construction Materials

Type General Specific
Roof METAL Corrugated Iron
Wall RENDER Other Render

Historic Themes

General Specific
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY Settlements

Creation Date

05 Aug 2010

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Approved

Last Update

11 Feb 2020

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