HOUSE, 20 HICKORY STREET

Statement of Significance

20 Hickory Street is a two storey, fibrous cement sheet clad timber framed house with a corrugated steel roof which has little heritage significance due to the extent of alteration.

Physical Description

A two storey asbestos clad timber framed house with a hipped roof clad in corrugated steel sheeting. The front and side verandas have been fully enclosed with timber stud walls and the original front door and windows relocated to external wall. The upper floor is clad with Hardiplank fibrous cement sheeting. There has been considerable internal change to the house as well as the removal of the original front wall of the house.

History

Hickory Street was largely developed in the last decade of the nineteenth century during the gold boom and much of the housing stock still dates from that time. The street was formerly known as James Street, the change occurring in 1901/02. House 20 Hickory Street first appears in the rate books in 1897 as a one room cottage. The cottage is on Lot 42 and was originally known as 42 Hickory Street before changing to the current number in 1935/36. From 1897 to at least 1925/26 the cottage was owned by Thomas Jack, who was a smelter and labourer. Ownership had changed by 1930/31 to Lillian Maud Shortle and she had several tenants including Charles Alfred Read in 1930/31 and Roderick McLean in 1935/36. A Metropolitan Sewerage Map from 1954 shows a timber framed asbestos house with a projecting front room with verandahs on three sides. A 1979 photo from the Fremantle Society Photographic Survey shows that the verandahs have been enclosed with asbestos cladding and louvred windows. The front door is on the north side of the house. In 1983 a first floor extension was added on the north side of the house and in 1989 the rear lean to was demolished and the interior of the house was reconfigured. The site was subdivided in 1998. The place was added to the Fremantle Municipal Inventory in 2000 and the Heritage List in 2008. In a review in 2010 it was recommended that the place be removed from the Heritage List because it was significantly altered and below the threshold for inclusion on the list. In 2023 the heritage listing for this place was reviewed as part of the Annual Update of The Heritage List and Local Heritage Survey. On 13 March 2024 Council resolved to remove this place from the Heritage List and to change the Local Heritage Survey Management Category to Level 4 Historic Record Only.

Integrity/Authenticity

Low, much modified

Condition

RECOMMENDED FOR DELETION 2010 - Below Threshold

Uses

Historic Themes

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