House, 62 Wilson Street

Statement of Significance

• The place has aesthetic value as a substantially intact timber residence from the 1920s.
• The place has historic value for its association with the development of the area known as West Guildford, later Bassendean in the 1920ss.
• The place has social value as a demonstration of the scale of housing constructed for professional members of the community in the 1920s.

Physical Description

A single storey timber framed house with a hipped roof. The roof has been reclad in red Colorbond with a vented gablet ridge, flying gable and verandah canopy, supported on square timber posts. The house has an asymmetric plan form with weatherboard to dado height and rough cast render above. The main entrance features a timber and glass panelled door with leaded light panel and leaded side lights and fan light. The windows are timber framed casements. A feature of the façade is a box bay with four casements, one to each side of the bay with stained glass fan lights. The house is located within a mature garden setting behind a timber picket fence.

History

This portion of Bassendean, on the eastern side of Wilson Street, was subdivided by a group of investors in 1898 under the promotional name of 'West End'. The group of investors included some of the most wellknown members of colonial society: S.H. Parker, G.H. Leake, H. Anstey, Dr D. Kenny, J. James, J. Grave, H.E. Parry, Dr J. Hope and W. Paterson. Three of these men; Parker, Leake and Paterson; were at various times members of parliament. Wilson Street was the western boundary of this subdivision and a slightly later
subdivision was created c1902 on the western side of Wilson Street. The name of the street recognises either the Premier of Western Australia, Frank Wilson but more likely an early resident of Guildford, Colonel Wilson. From the available information this residence was built c1921 and the first occupant was Thomas Walter Hall (c1893-1934) and his wife Eileen Emma, nee Parlour. The couple had married in 1919 and Thomas’s father, James Henry Hall a builder, may have built the house for them. Information from the owners’ c2004 stated that the house is substantially in its original form with a later addition of two bedrooms at the rear.

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