Moore's Building

Statement of Significance

(extracted from the Heritage Council’s Register documentation for the place) Moore’s Buildings, 42 - 46 Henry Street is of considerable significance as an example of the mixed residential, warehousing and merchandising economic base of the West End of Fremantle, in the nineteenth century. The Moores Buildings record and reflect, in essentially uncompromised examples, the development and change in building methods, building materials and architecture from 1869 through to 1900; a rapidly changing and significant period of growth. The place is rare in this respect. The place has historic significance relating to the important role of general merchants, and W.D. Moore in particular, in the colonial development of Fremantle, and Western Australia. The unified façade of the Moores Building, together with the other buildings in Henry Street, plays a significant role in establishing, and maintaining, the ‘gold boom’ (turn of the century) urban character for which the West End of Fremantle is renown.

Physical Description

Moores Building, 42 - 46 Henry Street is located on the eastern side of Henry Street and is situated between High Street and Marine Terrace. This section of Henry Street comprises an intact street of Federation Free Classical and Federation Warehouse buildings dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in response to the gold rush period of the 1880s – 1890s. The place comprises a complex of housing, stables and warehouse constructed between 1868 and 1899 in the Victorian Georgian and Victorian Academic style of architecture. The backstore was constructed at an earlier unknown date. The buildings are mainly constructed from rubble limestone walls and have brick quoined openings. Roof materials comprise of corrugated iron and some shingled cladding. There is a recent (1990s) corrugated iron clad structure at the rear. The façade was cement rendered during the gold rush years with rusticated coursings to the ground floor. The two storey stucco frontage also features an asymmetrical triangular pediment over the entrance at the northern end of the façade with decoration to the tympanum. The parapet has engaged pilasters and there are stucco quoinings and arched pediment over and reveals surrounding the timber framed sash windows. Refer to Heritage Council of Western Australia's Register of Heritage Places - Register and Assessment Documentation. A Heritage Assessment was prepared in July 2010 by the City of Fremantle for a DA submission to Council for the proposed external painting to the façade of the building.

History

Refer to Heritage Council of Western Australia's Register of Heritage Places - Register and Assessment Documentation. A Heritage Assessment was prepared in July 2010 by the City of Fremantle for a DA submission to Council for the proposed external painting to the façade of the building.

Integrity/Authenticity

High degree of integrity (original intent clear, current use compatible, high long term sustainability). High degree of authenticity with much original fabric remaining. (These statements based on street survey only).

Condition

Condition assessed as good (assessed from streetscape survey only).

Uses

Historic Themes

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