House

Author

Town of Claremont

Place Number

07776

Location

18 Mary St Claremont

Location Details

Local Government

Claremont

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1913

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type Status Date Documents
Heritage List YES 07 Jul 2015

Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

Type Status Date Documents
(no listings)

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type Status Date Grading/Management
Category
Municipal Inventory Adopted 05 Aug 2014 HA - Category 2
Municipal Inventory Adopted 31 Dec 1995

Parent Place or Precinct

25694 Mary Street Heritage Area

Statement of Significance

Mary Street Heritage Area demonstrates a diversity of the Federation and Inter-War residences that developed in close proximity and highlight the development of the styles during the intersecting periods. The quality of design, detail and decoration during the latter part of the ‘Federation’ period is demonstrated in the residences at Nos. 14, 18 culminating in Nos. 23 and 25, while the Inter-War California Bungalows revert to austerity and similarity of design and detail as shown by Nos. 10 and 24. Overall, the residences in Mary Street Heritage Area collectively form an aesthetically cohesive streetscape.

Physical Description

Single storey face brick with an expansive hipped Zincalume roof with a decorative front gable detail with shadow timbers in a curved design against a roughcast wall that is part of the rectangular bay window below comprising three casement windows with diamond leadlight glazing. The bay window is under the full width hipped skillion verandah that extends across the front. The verandah evidences exposed eaves and deep turned post brackets infilled with vertical spaced timbers. Tall face brick chimney with a deep rendered panel and clay pot.

History

The street location is older than the residential occupation of it, being originally a private right of way between Location 701 and Location 621 which appears to date to the 1890s. Residential development of Mary Street appears to have started in 1902 and was part of a burst of development between 1903-1915 which filled in the area between Stirling Highway and the railway line between Mary and Loch Streets. This was the main area of new development for the 1903-1915 period and contains most of the Town’s stock of housing from this era. By the end of the 1903-1915 development period there were 1,240 houses within the town with housing types that were mainly brick Federation Bungalow and Federation Queen Anne with three to five rooms. The majority of the street had been developed by the end of the ‘Consolidation’ period with some infill occurring during the Inter-War Period. Houses 10, 21 & 24 are evidence of this. The ‘Inter-War’ period has left the Town with a legacy of Inter-War housing mainly in either the California Bungalow style or late Federation Bungalow style. The main areas of this development were in the western parts of the town concentrated in the area from Corry Lynn Road to the Claremont border and Parry, Grange, Kingsmill and Albert Streets.

References

Ref ID No Ref Name Ref Source Ref Date
Town of Claremont Thematic History A Heritage reference Framework
Claremont Rate Books

Other Keywords

Level contributory significance:
Considerable Contribution

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch General Specific
Present Use RESIDENTIAL Single storey residence
Original Use RESIDENTIAL Single storey residence

Construction Materials

Type General Specific
Roof METAL Corrugated Iron
Wall BRICK Common Brick

Creation Date

10 Jun 1997

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

02 Feb 2021

Disclaimer

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