Shops/Commercial Building

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• 19962 Shop/Commercial Building

Statement of Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE No 88 George Street is a double storey building comprised of shops and residences. It is constructed in brickwork, rendered masonry and limestone in the Federation Free Classical style. The place has historic and aesthetic value with its contribution to Plympton's high concentration of worker’s cottages and associated buildings. It contributes to the local community’s sense of place. The place has considerable heritage value for its intrinsic aesthetic value as a Federation Free Classical style shop and residence. It retains a moderate to low degree of authenticity and a moderate degree of integrity. It makes a strong visual contribution to the George Street precinct. AESTHETIC SIGNIFICANCE No 88 George Street has considerable aesthetic value as a fine example of a pair of restored Federation Free Classical style shops and residences. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE No 88 George Street has considerable historic value. It was part of the suburban residential development associated with the expansion of East Fremantle during the Goldrush period of the 1880s and 1890s. SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE N/A SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE No 88 George Street has considerable social value. It is associated with a significant area of worker’s cottages and the George Street precinct which contributes to the community's sense of place.

Physical Description

Late Victorian / Early Federation Free Classical No 88 George Street is a pair of restored shop fronts with new shops and a residence to the rear. It is constructed in brickwork, rendered masonry and limestone with corrugated iron roofing. The shops are designed as a mid block building. The front facade is symmetrically planned with entrances and display windows mirrored around a dividing wall. A bullnosed roof verandah on timber posts spans the shop fronts. The verandah is supported on timber posts. The original building’s rear portions were removed and the current shops and residences were constructed in their place. The place is consistent with the pattern of development in Plympton and plays an important role in the pattern of development of a working class suburb. It is an example of the capacity for adaptation of the first generation of buildings.

History

Plympton is a cohesive precinct where most of the places were constructed in the late nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century. It is comprised primarily of homes for workers and their families with a high concentration of small lots with timber, brick and stone cottages. No 88 George Street’s front façade is a very fine example of a terrace of shops in the Federation Free Classical style. The original rear portions of the building were removed and the current shops and residences were constructed in their place.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: Moderate Authenticity: Low - Moderate

Condition

Good

Uses

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