HOUSE, 213 SOUTH STREET

Physical Description

House, 213 South Street is a single storey brick and tile house constructed in the Inter-War California Bungalow style of Architecture. The walls are rendered brick on a painted limestone foundation. The roof is hipped and gabled and clad with tiles, and has exposed rafters. The verandah is under the main gable roof supported by rendered piers and a half wall rendered balustrade. The facade under the verandah roof has a door and timber framed casement windows. There is another set of timber framed casement windows under a tiled awning supported by timber brackets. The house is situated two steps up from street level with a low painted brick fence to the front boundary line, and a paved front yard. There is an addition to the house on the west side, which is probably originally a garage and later adjoined to the main house. There is a former outbuilding in the rear yard, accessed from Central Avenue.

History

The rate books list this as a vacant lot in 1924-5 and again in 1934-5. In PO Directories, the house at No 213 is first listed in 1940/41 although it is vacant. The following year it is occupied by William A Hall, who is the owner. The house is built on two lots. Nos. 63 & 64. The 1947 aerial photograph (Landgate) shows house set back from South Street. Behind the house in the south east corner of the lot is a large rectangular outbuilding that extends in an east-west direction. The sewerage map (No. 2197) dated c1950 indicates that this outbuilding is a shed (west end) and stables. FLHC has undated colour photos on file of the stables, with a cement brick rear wall and a low pitched corrugated iron skillion roof. The long building has been divided into 5 sections inside by the addition of timber walls. The cubicle on the far right of the building would appear to have had windows, possibly a door (evidence of a door frame, although there is no wall surrounding it now) and what would appear to be a timber floor. This building is located behind a house with a tile roof and fibro wall, seemingly at the rear of the block. The 1965 aerial photograph (Landgate) shows that another structure has been erected to the west of the house with a link; this is possibly a carport or garage. FLHC files contain unprinted negatives showing a house with external walls of timber below and fibro above, with a porch and what may be a car port attached. There are some internal shots showing lead light doors and a kitchen with a double sash window. Later aerial photos (Landgate) show that between 1985 and 1995 this was redeveloped and adjoined to the main house with a hipped tiled roof. The outbuilding was also extended in the same period to become an L-shape. The rear yard was cleared and paved. The appearance of the place has changed little since then. As at 2017, the former house and outbuilding is the Central Avenue Medical Centre.

Condition

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

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