Shop Front & Upstairs Residence

Statement of Significance

Shop, 109 Throssell Street, Collie, two-storey brick and iron shop constructed after 1909 in the Federation Filigree style of architecture has cultural heritage significance. As a two-storey building with an intact second storey verandah, it makes a significant aesthetic contribution to the Collie streetscape and if forms part of the early commercial centre of Collie.

Physical Description

Shop, 109 Throssell Street, is a two storey brick and iron commercial building in the Federation Filigree style of architecture. The walls are red face brick. There are rendered bands at head height on the top floor, and rendered sections below the windows to the ground floor. The roof is hidden by a decorative parapet which has four finial features and stucco detailing including a central scroll. The upper floor verandah roof is separate from the parapet and has a simple timber frieze, timber balustrading and posts, not original. The ground floor has two entrances and glazed shop front windows.

History

On 21 May 1909 a fire started in the shop of WE Smith, a tailor and spread rapidly through the eight wooden shops between the Colliefields Hotel and the Crown Hotel. The Southern Times of 25 May 1909 reported that the businesses destroyed as GW Hartley, grocer; WE Smith, tailor; CAF Bond, chemist; R Waters, baker and confectioner; N Glaris, fish saloon; E Reynardson, furniture warehouse, E Watt, newsagent and the Ezywalkin Boot Co, boot merchants. Property loss was estimated at £2,000 with total losses, including stock and equipment at £4-5,000. The vacant blocks on either side of the row of shops protected the Colliefields and Crown Hotels. Most tenants were living on site. The Post Office Directories for Collie do not record street names until 1934. There is no specific reference to 60 Throssell Street until 1940-1949 when Corot & Co, frocks and millinery are listed. Corot & Co were listed previously (1934-1938) at 80 Throssell Street. In 1933, Corot and Co advertise stores in Perth, Fremantle, Kalgoorlie, Albany and Throssell Street, Collie

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