Coogee Post Office (fmr)

Author

City of Cockburn

Place Number

24500

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Location

358 Cockburn Rd Coogee

Location Details

Lot 51

Local Government

Cockburn

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1928

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type	Status	Date	Documents	More information
Heritage List	Adopted	14 Jul 2011

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	10 Apr 2014	Category A	Category A Exceptional significance Essential to the heritage of the locality. Rare or outstanding example. The place should be retained and conserved unless there is no feasible and prudent alternative to doing otherwise. Any alterations or extensions should be sympathetic to the heritage values of the place and in accordance with a Conservation Plan (if one exists for the place).

Statement of Significance

Coogee Post Office (fmr) is representative of places which served the rural areas near Perth but which have gradually been engulfed by urban development.
Coogee Post Office (fmr) has aesthetic value as a simple limestone building, with some landmark value on Cockburn Road.

Physical Description

Coogee Post Office (fmr) is situated close to Cockburn Road. The place is a single-storey structure, built using coursed smooth faced limestone with brick quoins. It has a symmetrical facade with two windows situated on either side of the front entrance door. It has an attached weatherboard portion at the rear. A simple verandah with a skillion roof is attached to the front (west) elevation. The roof of the front section is raked and the back section is gabled.

History

Now used as a residence, this old stone building and the Coogee Hotel are the earliest built in the area. The Post Office was built by Jock McKinnon around 1928. McKinnon was the brother-in-law of Walter Powell, the builder of the adjoining Coogee Hotel.
There was a courtyard between the two buildings for turning horses and carts. This was not the first Post Office in the area. Originally the post was sorted and collected from a shop about a kilometre to the south of the Post Office building.

Integrity/Authenticity

INTEGRITY: Integrity of the interior is low due to adaptive works.
AUTHENTICITY: Moderate: much reduced by adaptive works

Condition

Good

References

Ref ID No	Ref Name	Ref Source	Ref Date
	HCWA assessment for Coogee Hotel and Post Office	State Heritage Office

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch	General	Specific
Original Use	Transport\Communications	Comms: Post or Telegraph Office
Present Use	RESIDENTIAL	Single storey residence

Construction Materials

Type	General	Specific
Roof	METAL	Corrugated Iron
Wall	STONE	Limestone

Creation Date

14 May 2012

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

06 Dec 2019

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