Residence, 16 Marmion Street

Statement of Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
No 16 Marmion Street is a single storey house constructed in rendered masonry with a corrugated iron roof 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 bungalow and it retains a moderate to high degree of authenticity and a high degree of integrity.
The additions to the rear have no significance.
AESTHETIC SIGNIFICANCE
No 16 Marmion Street has exceptional aesthetic value as a typical Federation Free Classical style bungalow. It retains characteristics of the period.
HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE
No 16 Marmion 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 16 Marmion Street has some social value. It is associated with a significant area of worker’s cottages which contributes to the community's sense of place.
RARITY
No 16 Marmion Street is rare in the immediate context. Plympton has rarity value as a working class suburb.

Physical Description

Federation
Mannerist Influences

No 16 Marmion Street is one of a pair of single storey rendered masonry houses in the Federation Free Classical style. The place has a hipped corrugated iron roof behind a rendered parapet wall. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with an offset door flanked by a partly enclosed verandah. The facade features a full width bullnosed verandah supported on a Tuscan column and masonry columns. The verandah has been partly enclosed with timber lattice work. The facade is dominated by a classically derived pediment supported on rendered pilasters.
There are additions to the rear.
The place is consistent with the pattern of development in Plympton and plays an important

History

Historic Theme: Demographic Settlement

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.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: High
Authenticity: Moderate - High

Condition

Good

Uses

Historic Themes

Creation Date

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