Shop Houses - Canning Highway

Statement of Significance

Aesthetic, Historical, Social, Representative & Rarity STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE No 79-83 Canning Highway is a single storey set of shops with residences behind them. The place is constructed in rendered masonry with an iron roof. The place has historic and aesthetic value with its contribution to Plympton's high concentration of worker’s cottages and associated buildings. It contributes to the local community’s sense of place. The place has considerable heritage value for its intrinsic aesthetic value as a Federation Free Classical commercial premises and it has a low degree of authenticity and a high degree of integrity. The shopfronts and verandahs have no significance. AESTHETIC SIGNIFICANCE No 79-83 Canning Highway has considerable aesthetic value as a fine Federation Free Classical commercial building. It retains some of the characteristic features of combined commercial and residential premises of the type and period. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE No 79-83 Canning Highway has some historic value. It was part of the suburban residential development associated with the expansion of East Fremantle during the Goldrush period of the 1880s and 1890s. SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE N/A SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE No 79-83 Canning Highway has some social value. It is associated with a significant area of worker’s cottages, which contributes to the community's sense of place.

Physical Description

No 79-83 Canning Highway is a single-storey rendered brick building. Low-pitched corrugated iron roofs are concealed by parapets. It is a remnant expression of the Federation period shops with houses to the rear. The street elevations are arranged to accommodate three shopfronts. The original shopfronts and much of the classical detailing has been removed. Only the rhythm of the shops and their roofscape can be read externally. A recently constructed verandah is built out over the pavement. The place is consistent with the pattern of development in Plympton and plays an important role in the pattern of development of a working class suburb. CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS Walls – Rendered masonry Roof - Corrugated roof sheeting PHYSICAL SETTING The building is built up to the lot boundaries and a verandah extends out over the pavement.

History

Historic Theme: Demographic Settlement & Occupations Plympton is a cohesive precinct where most of the places were constructed in the late nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century. It is comprised primarily of homes for workers and their families with a high concentration of small lots with timber, brick and stone cottages. Commercial premises were established on Canning Highway and George Street. The George Street commercial strip developed within a decade of the residential development in surrounding streets. HISTORIC THEME Demographic Settlements - Occupations

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: High

Condition

Poor

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