SHOP & HOUSE, 84 HAMPTON RD

Statement of Significance

84 Hampton Road has cultural heritage significance: - as a good example of an Inter-War corner shop and attached house which shows the influence of the Inter-War Californian Bungalow style of architecture; - for the contribution that it makes to a substantially intact late nineteenth and early twentieth century streetscape close to the centre of Fremantle; and - as an illustration of traditional suburban development and patterns of shopping that developed prior to the rise of universal car ownership and the establishment of large shopping malls

Physical Description

84 Hampton Road consists of a traditional single storey corner shop built against the site boundary with an attached house behind set back from the Hampton Road and Stevens Street boundaries behind a garden. The shop and house exhibit characteristics of the Inter-War Californian Bungalow style of Architecture. The corner shop has a hipped terracotta tile roof with narrow eaves and a separate cantilevered verandah roof sheltering the large shop windows on Hampton Road and Stevens Street and the corner entry door. The verandah roof is supported on timber brackets and it has signage attached to the front edge of the verandah roof The lower half of the face brick masonry walls have been rendered and painted and the upper half are painted only. The timber shopfront and entry door would appear to be original. The corner door is half glazed and is flanked with sidelights and has a fanlight above. The entrance to the attached house is located on Hampton Road. The house has a projecting bay with a hipped tiled roof with a gambrel and the horizontal format window has a flat concrete sunshade with decorative brackets. A separate masonry porch with a curved corner detail buts against the projecting bay and wraps around the north-east corner of the house. The porch has been infilled above the solid balustrade with aluminium windows. The face brick and rendered banding walls to the façade of the house have been painted but the utilitarian face brick walls to the side walls are unpainted. Timber casement sash windows are generally intact as are the brick chimneys with rendered banding, caps and terracotta chimney pots. A steel framed verandah has been added on the Stevens Street side of the house.

History

The street derives its name from John Stephen Hampton, the Governor from 1862-68, previously Comptroller of Convicts in Tasmania. His son, G. E. Hampton, was Acting Comptroller-General of the Fremantle Convict Establishment. The land on which house and shop 84 Hampton Road stands was vacant and owned by James Rainsop (?). Ownership of the vacant lot changed in 1922/23 from James Ramsay to James Duncan Ewing and in 1924/25 a shop and stables had been built. The shop was owned and operated by Ewing. By 1930/31 Margaret Ann Ewing was the owner and James Arthur Compton operated the shop. By 1938/39 Compston (spelling changes in rate books) had a house built on the lot at a cost of £1000. In 1949/50 Rose Mary Compton owned the shop and was the owner/occupier of the cottage. Frederick E. Gauntlett was the tenant in the shop. Part 16 of Lot 739 was originally numbered 68 Hampton Road. In 1935/36 this changed to number 50 and in 1951/52 the current street number was assigned. 84 Hampton Road was not included on the original Fremantle Municipal Heritage Inventory which was adopted in 2000 but it was identified later as a place of interest. On 27 February 2022 Council resolved to include 84 Hampton Road on the Fremantle Heritage List and the Local Heritage Survey as a management category Level 3 place.

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