Local Government
Fremantle
Region
Metropolitan
47 Cliff St Fremantle
Bounded by Cliff St, Croke Ln & Marine Tce
Customs House & Bonded Warehouse
Maritime Museum
Fremantle
Metropolitan
Type | Status | Date | Documents | More information |
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Heritage List | YES | 08 Mar 2007 | City of Fremantle | |
State Register | Registered | 22 Jun 2001 |
Register Entry Assessment Documentation |
Heritage Council |
Type | Status | Date | Documents |
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(no listings) |
Type | Status | Date | Grading/Management | More information | |
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Category | Description | ||||
Municipal Inventory | Adopted | 18 Sep 2000 | Level 1A |
Level 1A |
City of Fremantle |
Classified by the National Trust | Classified | 20 Sep 1960 |
|
Heritage Council | |
Register of the National Estate | Permanent | 21 Mar 1978 |
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Heritage Council |
A good example of Georgian architecture and one of Fremantle’s oldest buildings – might be restored as a complete colonial complex.
Group of buildings including Customs/Commissariat Stores of cut and tuckpointed stone with wall angles and windows outlining in brick. Iron barred windows. Side Porch with curved arch. Georgian style of architecture. 1975 restoration as a maritime museum.
Assessment 1974
Architect: James Manning - Clerk of Works of the Imperial Establishment
Builder: Imperial Establishment using convict labour
Construction: 1856
Library Id | Title | Medium | Year Of Publication |
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11561 | Building the Fremantle convict establishment - Henderson and Coy | Heritage Study {Other} | 2011 |
7902 | Fremantle walks. | Book | 2006 |
11942 | The Maritime Museum of Western Australia - A case study in tracing the history of the Commissariat to it's prersent day use as the Maritime Museum. | Heritage Study {Other} | 1987 |
6426 | A preliminary study of convict sites in Western Australia (draft). | Heritage Study {Other} | 1997 |
11815 | Henderson & Coy : Royal Engineers & the Convict Establishment Fremantle Western Australia 1850 - 1872 | Book | 2017 |
11693 | The Commissariat Buildings : conservation management strategy (Restricted release) | Electronic | 2018 |
Individual Building or Group
Epoch | General | Specific |
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Original Use | GOVERNMENTAL | Customs House\Bond Store |
Present Use | EDUCATIONAL | Museum |
Style |
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Victorian Regency |
Victorian Georgian |
Type | General | Specific |
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Wall | STONE | Limestone |
Roof | METAL | Corrugated Iron |
Roof | ASBESTOS | Fibrous Cement, corrugated |
General | Specific |
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DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY | Workers {incl. Aboriginal, convict} |
SOCIAL & CIVIC ACTIVITIES | Law & order |
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY | Government policy |
TRANSPORT & COMMUNICATIONS | River & sea transport |
OCCUPATIONS | Commercial & service industries |
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