Cuddy Cuddy Changing Station

Author

Shire of Chapman Valley

Place Number

15838

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Location

Lot 1157 North West Coastal Hwy Howatharra

Location Details

Lot 1157 Part Lot 30; Plan 30P28842

Other Name(s)

Howatharra Staging Post

Local Government

Chapman Valley

Region

Midwest

Construction Date

Constructed from 1860

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type	Status	Date	Documents	More information
State Register	Registered	22 Nov 2005	Register Entry Assessment Documentation	Heritage Council

Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

Type	Status	Date	Documents
(no listings)

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type	Status	Date	Grading/Management		More information
Type	Status	Date	Category	Description	More information
Municipal Inventory	Adopted	17 Oct 2012	Category 1	Category 1 EXCEPTIONAL SIGNIFICANCE: Essential to the heritage of the locality. Rare or outstanding example. Management Recommendation: Conservation of the place is considered essential. Any proposed change should not unduly impact on the significance of the place and be in accordance with either a Conservation Plan or Heritage Impact Statement.
Aboriginal Heritage Sites Register	Permanent				Heritage Council

Statement of Significance

The Cuddy Cuddy Changing Station has considerable historic significance for the important role it played in road
transport between the mines at Northampton and the port at Geraldton in the 19th Century prior to the opening of
the railway in 1879.
The rare group of intact and largely restored buildings presents as a fine collection of simple vernacular rural stone
buildings and have been identified as having significance to the State. The place is an important element in a
distinctive cultural landscape set against the natural backdrop of Table Hill.

Physical Description

The historic Cuddy Cuddy Changing Station is located on the eastern side of the North West Coastal Highway just to
the north of Howatharra. The collection of vernacular stone buildings includes the Homestead, Engine Shed, Long
Stables, Small Stables, Large Barn and Cow Shed (shearing shed), which are organised around a lead-in drive and
turning circle and set in surrounding paddocks.
The outbuildings demonstrate fine stonework with large quoins and finely jointed random-rubble work laid in pug
and finished with lime mortar joints. They have a combination of hipped and gabled corrugated iron roofs which
have recently been reclad. The Homestead is of stone construction with a hipped corrugated iron roof which
extends broken back to cover enclosed verandahs.

History

Cuddy Cuddy Changing Station was constructed in the c1860s as a staging post for horse teams carting ore from the
mines on the Northampton Mineral Field to the port at Champion Bay. The property was owned and occupied by
the family of teamster and farmer William Taylor, who worked the property between the 1860s and 1953, with most
of the buildings constructed for Taylor in the 1860s. The changing station probably operated for around twenty
years, until the railway (b 1879) took over as the main form of transport between Champion Bay and the mines.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: Medium
Original Fabric: Fair
Modifications: Restoration works ongoing

Condition

Good

References

Ref ID No	Ref Name	Ref Source	Ref Date
HCWA- P15838	"State register Documentation".
	Considine & Griffiths Architects with Robin Chinnery, Historian,; onservation Plan.".	Considine & Griffiths	2002

State Heritage Office library entries

Library Id	Title	Medium	Year Of Publication
7644	Cuddy Cuddy buildings, conservation works : final conservation works report - grant allocation No 195/534 2004/2005.	Conservation works report	2006
9635	Cuddy Cuddy buildings 4 & 5.	Conservation works report	2010
9266	Cuddy Cuddy buildings, conservation works.	Conservation works report	2009
9128	Cuddy Cuddy buildings, conservation works.	Conservation works report	2008
5665	Cuddy Cuddy Changing Station, Howatharra : conservation plan.	Heritage Study {Cons'n Plan}	2002

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch	General	Specific
Original Use	MINING	Other

Architectural Styles

Style
Victorian Georgian
Vernacular

Construction Materials

Type	General	Specific
Wall	STONE	Other Stone
Wall	STONE	Granite

Historic Themes

General	Specific
PEOPLE	Early settlers
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY	Workers {incl. Aboriginal, convict}
OCCUPATIONS	Mining {incl. mineral processing}
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY	Resource exploitation & depletion
OUTSIDE INFLUENCES	Water, power, major t'port routes
OCCUPATIONS	Grazing, pastoralism & dairying
TRANSPORT & COMMUNICATIONS	Road transport

Creation Date

09 Aug 2001

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Approved

Last Update

25 Sep 2019

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