House

Statement of Significance

The house at No. 24 Harley Street is a fine and representative example of the Federation Georgian style, which directly addresses the street and has retained a high level of integrity.

Physical Description

The house is a stylistically upgraded form of the Late Colonial Georgian house. It is symmetrically planned with a central door with sidelights and fanlights, flanked by double hung sash windows to the front room. The walls are face brickwork with a stucco band at sill height. The iron roof is hipped and surmounted by symmetrically placed face brick chimneys, at either end of the ridge. The bullnose verandah, supported on turned and bracketed posts with a spindled bressemer, runs the full width of the façade. Close to the street behind a narrow garden with a palisade fence to the street. None apparent

History

Harley Street is part of the Highgate Hill subdivision, developed by surveyor Charles Crossland in 1874. He named the subdivision after his birthplace in London, and Harley Street is most likely named after the London street of that name, famous for being the address of medical specialists. Highgate was one of the earliest surburban areas to be settled, commencing with a group of workman's cottages erected on the eastern side of Beaufort Street. It was slow to develop initially until both the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches were granted land in the area on the western side of Beaufort Street in the 1880's. St Alban's Anglican Church was subsequently erected at No. 423 Beaufort Street in 1889 and the Sacred Heart Convent and School in 1898 and Sacred Heart Catholic Church in 1897 was erected in mary Street. Highgate Primary School was opened in Lincoln Street in 1895 as a result of a sudden increase in population and this attracted more families to the suburb as did the development of nearby Hyde Park around the turn of the century. No places were shown in the street in the 1897 PWD sewerage plans, but there were ten dwellings and a terrace (Nos. 7 - 13) listed in the City of Perth Rate Books of 1898. It is not clear if No 24 was one of those listed, but the place appears on the 1900 PWD sewerage plan series. No 24 was listed for the first time in 1899 in Wise's Post Office Directories as being occupied by William A. Burnmeister and in 1900 by James Brennan. In 1925 the resident was John Waldron and by 1935 Mrs J. Waldron (possibly his widow) had taken over. In 1949 the resident was Miss L. Waldron indicating that the Waldron family had been residents from at least 1949 until 1949 when the Directories ceased.

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