Commercial Premises

Statement of Significance

• The place has some aesthetic value for the remaining form, scale and detail of combined commercial and residential premises built in the 1920s. • The place and the adjacent premises (165, 181 and 187 Guildford Road) have aesthetic value as a landmark of the Maylands townsite • The place has historic value for its association with establishment and development of the Maylands town centre. • The place has social value as a demonstration of the type of combined commercial and residential premises built in the early 20th century. • The place has social value for the members of the Maylands community for its continuity of function since the early 20th century which contributes to the community sense of place.

Physical Description

A single storey shop of brick construction that has been painted and rendered to the front façade and has a tiled dado. The building has no front set back and adjoins the footpath. The replacement aluminium framed glazed front entry door is centrally located and recessed. It has large shopfront glazing to both sides and a band of fanlights above in a combination of smaller coloured and larger clear panes. It has a tall decorative parapet with roughcast render that has engaged piers to the outer edges, a shallow signage projection in the centre and decorative contrasting mouldings.

History

Settlement in Maylands had slowly occurred since the late 1890s when the name first appeared on real estate plans produced by developers, Gold Estates of Australia. This company held the majority of the land in the future suburb of Maylands and the plan for this portion of Guildford Road near Eighth Avenue was approved for subdivision in 1899. Development of the town centre followed the construction of the Maylands Railway Station in 1900 which was built largely to support the Mephan Ferguson Factory, established c1898 to manufacture pipes for the Kalgoorlie Water Scheme. From the readily available information the date of construction and sequence of occupancy of the group of commercial premises on the north side of Guildford Road between Seventh and Eighth Avenue are difficult to establish. This building is understood to have been constructed in the early 1920s and the first occupant was greengrocer, George Wellman. A long term occupant from the early 1920s to the mid 1930s was Furniture dealer Alf Hare (c1877-1964). The place was subsequently occupied by dentists Boynton and Brierley. Aerial photographs indicate the place was extended to the rear c2001, this addition has not affected the ability to determine the form and extent of the original building.

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