House

Parent Place or Precinct

26335 Hamersley Road Group Heritage Area

Statement of Significance

The Hamersley Road Group heritage area is of: Aesthetic Value • As an aesthetically pleasing streetscape with a strong identifiable character, featuring an avenue of mature street trees, which frame views of the largely intact Federation and Inter War residences. • For its collection of many good, representative examples of Federation and Inter War cottages and villas which collectively illustrate a range and evolution of detailing between the 1890s and the 1940s. • For the cohesive streetscape created by a limited palette of materials and styles. Historic Value • As a representative collection of houses that illustrate the scale and standard of housing for the homes of unskilled workers to semi-professional and tradespeople, in the early twentieth century. • For the evidence it provides about the manner in which the residence of semi-professional and tradespeople existed alongside the residences of working people and employees. • For its association with the subdivision and rapid settlement of the area from the 1890s to the 1920s which demonstrates the rapid change of the district in the gold boom period and shortly thereafter. Representativeness • As a good representative collection of early twentieth century housing developed within walking distance of transport and services. Physical Form in the Public Realm • The houses, which (with the exception of two modern dwellings) were developed predominantly in the period 1898 to 1921, (and one in 1946) have largely retained their original external detailing and form. The defined period and nature of development has resulted in a consistent palette of materials and form, enlivened by diversity of individual details, with a cohesive streetscape.

Physical Description

Single storey house with replacement zincalume roof. The post-WWII house has been constructed in a mock federation style incorporating tuckpoint finish to the brickwork and rendered bands around openings and across the elevation. The traditional asymmetric planform of the house prevails, with each section of the façade containing multi-paned non-original French doors. The roof is mainly hipped with a gabled section to the bay. This section of roof originally had a hipped roof. The verandah canopy is a very shallow pitched skillion supported on timber columns. The deck is raised on a brick retaining wall with timber boards. The property is enclosed by low stone wall with 1.8m piers and picket style panels.

History

This portion of Subiaco bound by Hamersley Road, Derby Road, Heytesbury Road and Federal Road was designated as Perth Suburban Lot 260. This large landholding of five acres was acquired by the Intercolonial Investment Land and Building Company Limited in 1890. This company was based in New South Wales but was very active in the development of Perth’s metropolitan area in the 1890s. The plan for the subdivision of this portion of Hamersley Road was approved by the Department of Lands and Surveys in 1904. However, the land had been subdivided for residential sale some years previously. Lots had been transferred to new owners from 1892. This lot and lot 17 to the west were identified as one property until c1946 when a new building was constructed on this lot for the occupier R. Webb.

Integrity/Authenticity

The alterations to the window openings reduce the authenticity of the place to the proposed heritage area. The gable detail to the roof line is not original. The place is not consistent with the main period of development of this heritage area which has reduced its contribution.

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