House at 10 Turner Street

Statement of Significance

House at 10 Turner Street a single-storey brick residence, has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons:
it is a picturesque dwelling forming part of the elevated and vegetated townscape backdrop to the City of Bunbury formed by the 'Kings Table' hill;
the place demonstrates the turn-of-the-century expansion of the town into its suburbs, following the gradual subdivision of the historic Stirling estate (Location 26), and marking the west boundary of 'Bury Hill' the early Government Resident's property; and
as a substantial residential example of the Victorian Italianate style common to the rebuilding of the nearby city centre in the turn-of-the- century gold boom era.

Physical Description

House, 10 Turner Street is a single-storey brick residence designed as an example of the Victorian Italianate style. It comprises a rectangular plan of rooms flanking a central passage with bay-rooms thrust out at front, back and side, enfolding a verandah, with two additional sub-bays flanking the front entrance within the verandah (at the right octagonal, at the left, rectangular). There are projecting bays through the verandah roof to gablets in the main roofs.
The rooms flanking the passage are roofed together with a resultant pyramid. An enclosed parapeted skillion extends across the rear. The construction of the main house is of corrugated iron roofing on timber framing, on painted brick walls with stucco decoration, plastered and painted internally, with timber joinery and floors.

History

Turner Street is named for local surveyor, G R Turner, who lived in Bunbury in the late 1880s and built the first brick house in the street.

House, 10 Turner Street was built at some stage between c. 1880 and 1900.
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George Tipping, a draper, acquired title to the property in 1911; it was transferred to Edith Elizabeth Tipping in 1915. In the 1920s, House, 10 Turner Street was purchased by John Lewis Prichard, a dentist. It was during his ownership (c 1950) that a conjoined residence was built as a retirement unit. However, Mr Prichard did not like the results and soon sold the property to J W Cross, an earthmoving contractor.

Mrs Cross still lived at House, 10 Turner Street in the late 1990s.

This history is based on the documentary evidence in Heritage Council of Western Australia, ‘Register of Heritage Places: House 10 Turner Street’, prepared by Ian Molyneux, 1997.

Integrity/Authenticity

High degree of integrity (original intent clear, current use compatible, high long term sustainability).
High degree of authenticity with much original fabric remaining.
(These statements based on street survey only).

Condition

Condition assessed as good (assessed from streetscape survey only).

Uses

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