West End, Fremantle

Parent Place or Precinct

22601 WEST END CONSERVATION AREA (as adopted in 2000)

Child Places

• 00899 Union Bank (fmr)
• 22561 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 85 MARKET STREET
• 00956 P J Morriss Building (fmr)
• 00922 RSL CLUB, 81-83 HIGH STREET
• 20467 SITE OF FORMER PIER HOTEL
• 22542 WAREHOUSE, (FMR TIMOTHY'S TOYS), LOT 11, 1 CROKE LANE
• 21276 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 93-97 MARKET STREET
• 00884 Central Wool Company
• 24701 HOUSE, 18 COLLIE STREET
• 01023 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 4 COLLIE STREET
• 00962 Grieve and Piper Buildings
• 00854 Wilhelmsen House
• 00864 Trades Hall (fmr)
• 24832 FREMANTLE BUFFALO CLUB
• 04221 Dock Building
• 20519 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 32 MARINE TERRACE
• 04314 Terminus Hotel (fmr)
• 00965 Two Houses
• 00964 Two Terrace Houses
• 00919 WESTPAC BANK (FMR), 66-70 HIGH STREET
• 20203 FREMANTLE CLUB, 7-15 BANNISTER STREET
• 00879 Falk & Company Warehouse
• 23404 TERRACE, 12 NAIRN STREET
• 00926 National Hotel
• 22562 FORMER BATEMAN'S WAREHOUSE, 34 MOUAT STREET
• 00981 P & O Building
• 00913 Athena Lodge (fmr)
• 00855 Reckitt & Colman Building Facade
• 00912 FOTHERGILLS BUILDING, 32 HIGH STREET
• 24839 HUDSON BUILDING, 14 PHILLIMORE STREET
• 00970 Seppelts Warehouse
• 22913 HOUSE (DEMOLISHED), 16 BANNISTER STREET
• 00921 Commercial Hotel
• 22570 WAREHOUSE, 56 PAKENHAM STREET
• 00969 Seppelts Building Facade
• 03131 Navy Club (fmr)
• 00948 Seamen's Rest
• 13026 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 97-99 HIGH STREET
• 00954 IMPERIAL CHAMBERS
• 00978 McIlwraith Building
• 22568 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 31 PAKENHAM STREET
• 00885 Marich Buildings
• 00917 Central Chambers
• 22564 TERRACE, 8 NAIRN STREET
• 00893 Commercial Building, 54 Henry Street
• 04217 Commercial Building
• 00944 Fremantle Providoring Company
• 00900 Hotel Fremantle & Residence (at rear)
• 22569 D & J FOWLER BAG STORE (FMR)
• 00945 Water Police Station & Quarters (fmr), Fremantle
• 22563 DUPLEX, 3 NAIRN STREET
• 00946 Court House (fmr), Fremantle
• 00957 Howard Smith Building (fmr)
• 00858 McDonald Smith Building
• 00865 Mills & Wares Warehouse (fmr)
• 04220 Fremantle Workers Club
• 00961 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 16-20 MOUAT STREET
• 00859 Lilly's Buildings
• 00951 Fremantle Post Office
• 20202 TREE, 1 BANNISTER STREET (tree removed)
• 04314 Terminus Hotel (fmr)
• 22537 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, (WATSON'S FMR), 71 HIGH STREET
• 23403 TERRACE, 10 NAIRN STREET
• 00971 'MARINE HOUSE FACADE, 9 PAKENHAM STREET
• 00958 Tarantella Night Club (fmr)
• 00904 CELLARS'S RESTAURANT (FMR), 10 HIGH STREET
• 00985 Weighbridge
• 00857 Commissariat Buildings (fmr)
• 22536 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 48 HIGH STREET
• 22567 WILLSHIRE AND FEELY BUILDING
• 16624 Commercial Building
• 22538 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 75-79 HIGH STREET
• 00933 House
• 00923 Commonwealth Bank (fmr)
• 04583 Old Bank Row
• 00977 Customs House (fmr)
• 22924 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 103 MARKET STREET
• 24662 HOUSE, 16 COLLIE STREET
• 14767 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 99 MARKET ST
• 00897 Fremantle Municipal Tramways Car Barn (fmr)
• 00887 WAREHOUSE 30-32 HENRY ST
• 00908 WESTPAC BUILDING, 22 HIGH STREET
• 00880 Quartermaine's Building
• 00889 Fowler's Warehouse (Fmr)
• 01011 Two Houses
• 00968 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 1 PAKENHAM STREET
• 00979 Phillimore Chambers
• 00963 Strelitz Buildings
• 22572 PIONEER RESERVE, SHORT STREET
• 00924 Former Union Bank of Australia, 86 High Street
• 00927 Higham's Buildings
• 22519 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 3 PAKENHAM STREET
• 00920 Pearse's Buildings
• 00888 Sadliers Warehouse/Customs Agency
• 00976 Dalgety's Bond Store (fmr)
• 14510 Fremantle Fire Station
• 13115 Bateman's Warehouse (fmr) - site
• 00914 Orient Hotel
• 23018 WAREHOUSE, 43 PAKENHAM STREET
• 00982 Fremantle Fire Station (fmr No 2)
• 00906 Bank of Australasia (fmr)
• 00984 FORMER ROBERT HARPER BUILDING
• 00918 Bank of Adelaide (fmr)
• 00959 Adelaide Steamship House (fmr)
• 00953 Princess Theatre (fmr)
• 00905 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 16 HIGH STREET
• 00886 Mercantile Stevedores Warehouse
• 00916 AJAX BUILDING, 49-59 HIGH STREET
• 00910 Cleopatra Hotel
• 00934 COMMERCIAL BUILDING 8-12 BANNISTER STREET
• 20898 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 33-37 HIGH STREET
• 18772 Warehouse, 22-26 Pakenham Street
• 00915 UNION STORES BUILDING (FMR), 41-47 HIGH STREET
• 22541 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 6-8 CLIFF STREET
• 01022 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 12-14 COLLIE STREET
• 21316 DUPLEX, 13 NAIRN STREET
• 21518 COMMERCIAL BUILDING (DEMOLISHED), 49 PAKENHAM STREET
• 00907 Commercial Bank (fmr)
• 00960 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 14 MOUAT STREET
• 22556 WAREHOUSE, 2 LEAKE STREET
• 22565 WAREHOUSE, 8 PAKENHAM STREET
• 00911 P & O Hotel
• 16625 John Church Bulk Stores
• 00903 Tannatt Chambers
• 04203 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 12 HIGH STREET
• 03704 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 20-22 COLLIE STREET
• 00925 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 85-87 HIGH STREET
• 00975 His Majesty's Hotel
• 00882 Lance Holt School
• 03472 COMMERCIAL BUILDING, 93-95 HIGH STREET
• 00892 Warehouse (fmr)
• 22919 OFFICE/RESIDENCE. 16 -18 CLIFF STREET
• 21315 FORMER STRELITZ BROTHERS WAREHOUSE, 26 MOUAT STREET
• 00891 Bateman Buildings
• 00983 Frank Cadd Building (fmr)
• 21517 LONDON PLANE TREE, PHILLIMORE STREET
• 00902 Bank of New South Wales (NSW)(fmr)
• 00890 Moore's Building
• 15541 Eureka Mill & Warehouse
• 00862 Oceanic Hotel (fmr)
• 00909 OWSTON'S BUILDINGS
• 00856 Lionel Samson Building
• 22566 FORMER VICTORIA COFFEE PALACE
• 00980 Chamber of Commerce Building
• 00860 Commercial Building, 37-45 Cliff Street
• 00995 Spare Parts Theatre

Physical Description

The West End Heritage Area is characterised by small lots, narrow streets and buildings of similar size and form. The area remains highly intact with a predominance of buildings dating from the mid nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Streets are relatively homogenous with attached buildings two to three storeys in height, of stone or rendered masonry constructed to the street boundary. The majority of cross streets (Pakenham, Henry, Mouat and Cliff Streets) contain former bond stores and warehouses. These do not generally open onto the street and do not have verandahs or awnings over the pavement. By contrast High Street, the main commercial street through the West End, comprises buildings with shop-fronts and verandahs or street awnings. Bank buildings, however, did not generally have verandahs or awnings. The West End Conservation Area also contains a pocket of mid-nineteenth century dwellings in the Bannister and Nairn Streets area.

History

On 2 May 1829, Captain Fremantle of the Challenger landed at the mouth of the Swan River, and chose the strategic point of Arthur Head as the military camp and future capital. Lots in the new town were arranged to fit in with the natural landforms. Initially the port for Perth, Fremantle eventually became the Colony's primary port after sucessive waves of improvements that allowed sea-going vessels to berth. Warehouses began to be built from the 1870s, and development accelerated withthe arival of the railway (1881) and the Gold Boom (1892). The redesign of the harbour by C. Y. O'Connor in 1897 changed Fremantle from a small sea-side town to a busy industrial port. Merchants built warehouses, commercial premises, hotels and boarding houses to support the commercial interests associated with the shipping industry, and replaced the cottages and terraces that had previously characterised the area. Fremantle's importance as a port city strengthened during WWI and during the inter-war years when there was a boom in the wool trade. Increasing mechanisation after WWII resulted in a reduced workforce and impacted on businesses in the West End, which was exacerbated in teh 1970s with planning decisions that shifted the retail centre further east, and the West End became isolated from new development. The revival of the area began as Fremantle prepared to host the defence of the America's Cup in 1987 and the area has gradually gentrified since then, particularly with the arrival of the University of Notre Dame to the area.

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