Throssell Street Precinct (between Pendelton and Burt Streets)

Child Places

• 00548 Collie Police Station (fmr)
• 06240 Butcher Shop - Site
• 06243 Physiotherapist
• 00546 Federal Hotel
• 06239 Top of the Hill Guest House (fmr)
• 06248 Site
• 06242 Collie Mail Printing Shop (fmr)
• 06241 Phoenix Glass

Statement of Significance

While few of the buildings are of significance in their own right the street facades of the Precinct combine to form an architectural whole. The Victorian style decoration is prominent in the facades above canopy or verandah level and in some cases rich and elegant. This gives a unity to the Precinct. The street facade is punctuated with two double storey verandahs. These are a relatively rare occurrence although once quite common. The Precinct is historically important as evidence of the early commercial centre of Collie having.been developed after fire destroyed an earlier centre to the east sometime after 1903.

Physical Description

The Precinct comprises a * number of two storey buildings connected by single storey shop facades. The buildings date from around the early 1900s and were developed around the Federal Hotel at the east end of the town after a number of shops around the Federal Hotel at the east end of the townwere burnt down some time after 1903. The facades of the buildings comprise rendered brickwork with Victorian decorations worked in the render. The Collie Fields Hotel stands on the corner of Steere and Throssell Streets. It has a plain façade rendered at first floor level and ceramic tiles under a cantilevered canopy at the ground floor level. To the west of the west of the Collie Fields Hotel on Lot 91 are a number of shops on Lots 92,93 &94 which have a sparsely decorated parapet over a cantilevered canopy and shop window treatment under the canopy. The last of these shops, a pizza bar, has a recently built parapet which is out of character with the rest of the precinct. Moving further west a right of was separates a further three single storey shops with cantilevered canopies. Here the parapets are varied by scalloping at the top. West of these is a two storied brick structure with a two storied timber verandah straddling the street. Over the corrugated iron roof of the verandah the red brick facade gives way to an elaborately decorated rendered entablature. Adjacent to this building is the Crown Hotel dating from before 1912. The façade of the Crown Hotel is painted brickwork with a cantilevered canopy. The façade is topped with a rendered and lightly decorated entablature with a raised centrepiece obscured by advertising signs. To the west of the Crown Hotel is Bilbe’s Building. The façade above the canopy is simple and elegant with two French doors each opening onto a small cantilevered wrought iron balcony. The entablature is decorated with a gabled centrepiece flanked by Greek balustrading. To the west of Bilbe’s Building is a single storey shop, the cantilevered canopy is topped with a parapet with a central gabled motif. The last building of significance is the Victoria hotel with rendered façade and two storey verandah straddling the street. The verandah has been recently clad in metal sheeting and in part enclosed. Above the verandah is a simple entablature with a central gabled motif.

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