Three Terraced Houses

Statement of Significance

Terrace, 20, 22 & 24 Essex Street is a limestone, brick and corrugated iron hipped and gabled roof single storey residence as a late Victorian Georgian style of architecture and is of heritage significance. The place has aesthetic and historic significance as a rare example of residential development in the Old Port City of the West End Conservation Area of Fremantle dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The place is representative of a terrace which is part of a group of remnant residential buildings in Collie, Nairn and Essex Streets. The place is of social significance as evidenced by its classification by the National Trust.

Physical Description

Terrace, 20, 22 & 24 Essex Street is a single storey rendered terrace building with two, corrugated iron hipped roofs and six corbelled chimneys; two on number 20 and four on number 22-24. The corrugated iron veranda roof is supported by columns onto masonry pillars and low wall balustrades to 22-24; 20 has timber posts and no balustrade. The timber windows are double sash; 20, 22 are multi paned. Verandah supports not original. A Heritage Assessment was prepared in Dec 2009 by the City of Fremantle for a DA submission to Council for proposal to re clad the existing roof cladding with corrugated iron sheeting to match existing.

History

Essex Street was included in the 1832 town plan. It is named after the English county, as per Norfolk and Suffolk Streets. Lots 170-182 were soon taken up (Nos. 5-21). The buildings in Essex Street, unlike those in High Street, were not replaced in the 1890s boom, and those that remain extant date from the convict era of development. Originally (1880s) houses owned by Frank Bateman, Master Mariner, and one by Frederick Jones, ship builder. (Frederick Jones served on Fremantle Council 1888-96, 1898-1908, 1910-1914.) A vacant lot was adjacent for a shipbuilding yard. Terrace, 20, 22 & 24 Essex Street was built in 1904. No. 20 was converted to the Essex Restaurant in c1985 (currently 2013), and the others have various commercial uses. A Heritage Assessment was prepared in Dec 2009 by the City of Fremantle for a DA submission to Council for proposal to re clad the existing roof cladding with corrugated iron sheeting to match existing.

Integrity/Authenticity

Medium degree of integrity (original intent partially 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).

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