Residence, 140 Canning Highway

Statement of Significance

Aesthetic, Representative & Social

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE No 140 Canning Highway is a single storey house constructed in rendered brick with a corrugated iron roof. It has historic and aesthetic value for its contribution to Riverside’s small concentration of fine houses. The place contributes to the local community’s sense of place.
The place has considerable aesthetic value as a Federation Queen Anne style house. The place retains a moderate degree of authenticity and a high degree of integrity.
The additions and house to the rear have no significance.
AESTHETIC SIGNIFICANCE No 140 Canning Highway has considerable aesthetic value a as Federation Queen Anne style house. It retains most of the characteristic features of a dwelling of the type and period.
HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE No 140 Canning Highway has some historic value. It was part of the suburban residential development associated with the expansion of East Fremantle and the subdivision of Walter Easton’s Estate from 1901.
SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE N/A
SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE No 140 Canning Highway has some social value. It is associated with a significant area of middle class Federation and Inter-War period development, which contributes to the community's sense of place.

Physical Description

No 140 Canning Highway is a single storey house constructed in rendered brick and masonry house with a hipped and gable corrugated iron roof. It is set on a steeply rising site and is a fine example of the Federation Queen Anne style. The lot spans between Canning Highway and Hillside Road. The place is symmetrically composed with a full width return hip roofed verandah. The verandah is supported on turned timber posts. A vertical timber balustrade spans between the posts. There is a central door and hopper light flanked by sidelights and polygonal bay windows. The bay windows feature double hung sash windows. Each bay window extends above the verandah and features a hipped roof. The roofscape features tall render capped chimneys. There is a broad set of steps leading from the verandah to the garden.
The place retains its form and some of its details. There are additions to the rear. The rear garden has been replaced with pavement. The lot has been subdivided and a residence built to the rear. The residence to the rear addresses Hillside Road.
The place is consistent with the building pattern in the Precinct. The place plays an important role in the pattern of development of a middle class suburb.

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS Walls – Rendered brick
Roof – Corrugated iron sheeting
PHYSICAL SETTING The place is located on a rising site with lawned gardens. There is a limestone wall and steel palisade fence on the front boundary.

History

Historic Theme: Demographic Settlement

Riverside Precinct was once part of Location 64 (10 acres). In 1896 the Riverside Precinct was subdivided into 47 lots following the developments of Plympton in the 1890s. It was not until 1900 before all of the lots in Riverside were sold. A number of substantial homes were thereafter built in the area. Concurrently riverside related industries were developed along the base of the limestone scarp now fronted by Riverside Road.
More subdivisions to Riverside occurred in 1913 to Putney, Bellevue, Hillside, Surbiton and Hill Streets (Putney, Bellevue and Hill Streets no longer exist.). At the time a number of buildings were developed around Pier Street. Lot sizes were large in comparison to Plympton Precinct. By 1915 a dense group of houses were established in the Riverside Precinct. Large residences occupied the hilltop streets while smaller residences were developed along Preston Point Road and along the river bank. As a response to the topography of the precinct lots were irregular in shape and size.
Substantial residences were developed along the east side of Preston Point Road in the Richmond Precinct around this time. The developments on the west side of Preston Point Road, however, were of a much larger scale and in the late Victorian style which contrasts with the adjacent Precinct.

HISTORIC THEME Demographic Settlements - Residential Subdivision

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: High

Condition

Excellent

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