Local Government
Ashburton
Region
Pilbara
Lot 1 Stadium Rd Tom Price
Electrical and Painters Workshop
Single Men's Mess, Town Services
Ashburton
Pilbara
Constructed from 1967
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| Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 17 Aug 1999 | Category C | |
The Tom Price Shopping Arcade (and former single men's quarters) has aesthetic and historic cultural heritage significance. The single men's mess was one of the earliest buildings constructed in the Tom Price town site. With it's new use as a shopping centre the building represents a good example of the recycling of buildings for commericial use. Along with the Koobinya-Nintirri Centre the former mess adds to the townscape of Tom Price.
The Shopping Arcade has simple lines and utilitarian building materials typical of the mining towns of the North West. Solidly constructed of concrete besser blocks and steel frame, the two separate buildings were connected by an arcade featuring glass shop fronts and skylights. Gables like those featured at Nintirri and Koobinya Centres are found at both ends of the buildigs and as an entrance way to the arcade. The Stadium Road frontage has shady overhangs possibly later additions.
The Tom Price Shopping Arcade was built in 1967 to be used as a single men's mess for the mining and construction workers of Tom Price. The mess closed c1973/4. The mess was then converted to Town ServicessElectrical and Painter's Workshops in 1976. In 1990 the old mess had further work done, allowing them to be reopened as the shopping arcade.
Despite changes in use the building retains original scale and most original building fabric.
Good
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Individual Building or Group
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| Original Use | MINING | Housing or Quarters |
| Present Use | COMMERCIAL | Shopping Complex |
| Other Use | INDUSTRIAL\MANUFACTURING | Other |
| Type | General | Specific |
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| Wall | CONCRETE | Concrete Block |
| General | Specific |
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| OCCUPATIONS | Mining {incl. mineral processing} |
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