Warehouse / Workshop

Statement of Significance

Aesthetic, Historical, Social, Scientific, Representative & Rarity STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE No 91 Canning Highway is a single storey set of buildings constructed in painted and rendered brick. 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 an industrial warehouse commercial premises and it retains a moderate degree of authenticity and a moderate degree of integrity. The elements of the collection of buildings have varying degrees of significance. AESTHETIC SIGNIFICANCE No 91 Canning Highway has considerable aesthetic value as for its visual contribution to the Canning Highway commercial strip. HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE No 91 Canning Highway has some 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 91Canning Highway has some social value. It is associated with a significant area of worker’s cottages which contributes to the community's sense of place.

Physical Description

No 91 Canning Highway is a series of interconnected single-storey brick and rendered brick buildings. They have low-pitched corrugated iron roofs with some concealed by parapets. Its frontage has deep awnings and shopfronts from the 1950s. There are several phases of building, with some sections dating back to the early twentieth century. 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. CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS Walls – Painted brick and rendered masonry Roof - Corrugated roof sheeting PHYSICAL SETTING The building is set back from the Canning Highway frontage with a deep awning typical of a petrol station forecourt.

History

Historic Theme: Occupations 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. Commercial premises were established on Canning Highway and George Street. The George Street commercial strip developed within a decade of the residential development in surrounding streets. HISTORIC THEME Occupations

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: High

Condition

Poor

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