House- 19 JARRAD STREET

Statement of Significance

A fine Victorian villa significant for its retention of the iron lace in the front fence. One of a number of w_
rental properties built in the area in the 1890s.

Physical Description

1995 Comment: Historical and architectural significance with an important cast iron fence.
This Victorian cottage is one of a pair in Jarrad Street in what was proposed as the town centre. It is of tuckpointed red brick with plaster quoins to the corners of the projecting section of the house. The walls on this bay are rendered to mid-window level, possibly at a later date. The windows are small and paired with an awning over. The main roof is hipped and there is a separate bullnosed roof to the verandah. The gablet is filled with weatherboard. The east wall has been rendered. The front door is solid wood with multi-paned lights on either side. The verandah posts are square and chamfered with elaborate fretted wood brackets. Old iron lace of a style seen in old Cottesloe photographs complete with iron gate and gateposts is set into recent stone-faced stone walls.

Reason for Inclusion
1. The place is of higher-order local cultural heritage significance, being classified as Category 2 in the Town’s Municipal Inventory (MI).
2. In 2005 the Town undertook a review of MI Category 2 places towards the Heritage List for LPS3. The study recommended that the property be retained as Category 2.
3. The place contributes to the character and amenity of the street, locality and overall district.

History

This house and the one next to it are of a similar age. The next door house has however been modernised in the
1930s. Battered pebbledash piers replace the timber posts and a screen wall built between. The roof has been tiled
and the bullnose replaced with a broken back extension of the roof. Examples of how the basic structure of houses
can be retained or altered with minor modifications. This is the reverse of a pair in Marmion Street which are interwar
but one has been given a Victorian appearance with a bullnose replacing a broken back roof.
In 1901 owned by Pitman, a building contractor, who had a row of houses here. This was rented to Cecil Grave. C.H.
Pitman contractor of St Georges Terrace originally an apprenticed stone cutter in UK arrived at Coolgardie in the1890s.
By the turn of the century he was a developer of some substance.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity almost intact

Condition

Good

Uses

Historic Themes

Creation Date

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