War Service House

Author

City of Gosnells

Place Number

20048

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Location

16 Highbury Cr Beckenham

Location Details

Lot 36 on Plan 6432

Local Government

Gosnells

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1961

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

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Type	Status	Date	Grading/Management		More information
Type	Status	Date	Category	Description	More information
Municipal Inventory	Adopted	13 Sep 2016	Category 3	Category 3 A place of some/moderate cultural heritage significance to City of Gosnells. No constraints. Recommend: Conservation of the place is desirable. Any alterations or extensions should reinforce the significance of the place, and original fabric should be retained wherever feasible. Encourage retention of the place, and document the place if retention is not possible.

Statement of Significance

This place has historic value as a representative example of the standard of War Service Home provided by the State Government through the State Housing Commission in the early 1960s.

Physical Description

16 Highbury Crescent is a representative example of a war service home dating from the post-war era. Such houses were built quickly and without embellishment presenting as very simple dwellings. The brick and concrete tiled dwelling is located on the southern side of the road behind an open lawned garden. The house has a flush façade with a flat-canopied verandah to the east of the main entrance, with the canopy supported on slender metal poles. The raised deck is accessed by steps leading to a concrete deck. Windows are timber framed openings arranged with a vertical column of three hopper windows either side of a fixed pane. A panel of vertical timber boards provides the sole decorative feature to the façade.

The pavilion style roof is clad with concrete tiles with a wide brick chimney constructed on the eastern elevation of the house and projecting through the roof.

A detached garage has been constructed to the east of the house of timber framed construction with fibrocement sheet cladding.

History

Frank and Kathleen Teale were married 1 July 1961 and the State Housing Commission built this house by 9 September 1961. The builder was Jack Mavric of Messrs. Mavric & Sons of Maddington. This house is typical of the residence built for public housing in the early 1960s. Ex-servicemen were a specific group that were provided the opportunity to secure public housing because of the contribution during times of war.

Frank Teale (1909-1965) was a serviceman who served on Crete and mainland Greece as a driver in the Australian Transport Platoon between January 1941 and 19 December 1945.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: High degree: continual residential
Authenticity: Moderate to high degree

Condition

Good

References

Ref ID No	Ref Name	Ref Source	Ref Date
	Notes from original owner in 2006 –in Local Studies Collection
	Records of building specifications – in Local Studies

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch	General	Specific
Original Use	RESIDENTIAL	Single storey residence

Construction Materials

Type	General	Specific
Wall	BRICK	Face Brick
Roof	TILE	Ceramic Tile

Historic Themes

General	Specific
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY	Land allocation & subdivision

Creation Date

15 Jul 2011

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

14 Nov 2017

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