House

Values

The place has aesthetic value as a simple stone and brick residence in the Victorian Georgian style.

The form and scale of the place contributes to the Pool Street streetscape, which contains other buildings of similar design and materials.

The place has associations with the development of the York area since the mid nineteenth century.

The place has associations with the transportation of convicts to the colony in the 1850s, and in particular with the provision of land and accommodation for the pensioner guards and their families who accompanied them.

The place is a good example of an 1850s cottage in York, which is constructed of local stone and is intact.

Physical Description

The place is a single storey building of stone construction with brick quoined openings. The front façade is symmetrical.

The front verandah has a separate hipped roof and the rear section has a skillion roof. The entire roof is clad with CGI short sheets.

History

Subsequent to the transportation of the first convicts to the Swan River Colony in 1851, a convict depot was established in York to facilitate the completion of public works in the area. With the convicts came the Pensioner Guards; all of whom were granted land as part of their service.

This place is said to have been constructed for a Pensioner Guard in c. 1859.

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Condition

Sound

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