Local Government
Cottesloe
Region
Metropolitan
24 Jarrad St Cottesloe
(originally 14)
Cottesloe
Metropolitan
Constructed from 1923
Type | Status | Date | Documents |
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Heritage List | YES | 27 Jul 2015 | |
State Register | Registered | 12 May 2000 | HCWebsite.Listing+ListingDocument, HCWebsite.Listing+ListingDocument |
Type | Status | Date | Documents |
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(no listings) |
Type | Status | Date | Grading/Management | |
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Category | ||||
Classified by the National Trust | Classified | 11 Jun 2001 | ||
Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 27 Jul 2015 | Category 1 |
The home of John Curtin Prime Minsister of Australia, 1923. Curtin lived in this house from 1/9/1923 until his death during the war 1945. It has been written "His memorial stands around us ... a free land, a free people." Acting Prime Minister Forde 1945.
1995 Comment: Of historic interest - home of Australian Prime Minister John Curtin. John Curtin's House. A triple-fronted gabled brick and tile bungalow with a verandah down two sides that has been sympathetically filled-in. It is made of tuckpointed brickwork with stucco strings and a cantilevered awning over the main side-hung casement window set. Upper walls are rendered. Additional Comment: On the State Heritage Register. Reason for Inclusion 1. The place is of higher-order local cultural heritage significance, being classified as Category 1 in the Town’s Municipal Inventory (MI). 2. The place is also heritage classified on the State Register of Heritage Places. 3. The place contributes to the character and amenity of the street, locality and overall district.
The home is lived in by his daughter Elsie Mcleod. It used to be no 14. Curtin built another house across the road on the comer of Jarrad and Curtin Avenue which he intended to move into after the war. He died before this happened. That house was lived in by his son John until recently. 12-05-2000 Permanent listing of property on State Register of Heritage Places 11-6-2001 Classified and entered in the National Trust's List - of Classified Places
Integrity reasonable Modifications verandah infilled
Fair
Ref ID No | Ref Name | Ref Source | Ref Date |
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Lang J; "The Cottesloe Story". p.70-73 | 1977 |
Library Id | Title | Medium | Year Of Publication |
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4576 | Conservation Plan for John Curtin's House. | Heritage Study {Cons'n Plan} | 2000 |
6454 | John Curtin's House : proposed conservation works. | Conservation works report | 2003 |
Individual Building or Group
Epoch | General | Specific |
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Original Use | RESIDENTIAL | Single storey residence |
Present Use | RESIDENTIAL | Single storey residence |
Style |
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Inter-War California Bungalow |
Type | General | Specific |
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Roof | TILE | Terracotta Tile |
Wall | BRICK | Common Brick |
General | Specific |
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DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY | Land allocation & subdivision |
PEOPLE | Famous & infamous people |
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