House, 12 Briggs Street

Statement of Significance

• This place has some aesthetic value for its demonstration of the basic form and some elements of the Inter War Californian Bungalow style.
• The place has historic value for its association with the development of this area of Bassendean in the Inter War period.
• This place has social value as a demonstration of the form and scale of housing in the 1930s.

Physical Description

A single storey timber framed and weatherboard clad house with a CGI clad hipped roof. The south, streetfacing elevation contains a gabled protruding section on the west side of the south elevation. The protruding section contains a timber framed window with modern security grills added. The recessed section contains the front entrance and a timber framed, lead-lighted window (to the east side south elevation). Trees obscure the both east and west windows and therefor their construction cannot clearly be determined. A separate flat-roof garage has been added to the east side of the house. A separate bull-nose verandah canopy extends across the entire south elevation (incorporating protruding and recessed sections and the garage addition). The verandah is supported by plain timber pillars and the
verandah floor is constructed from timber.

History

This portion of Bassendean was subdivided for residential development c1905 by developer Thomas Briggs who gave his name to this street. This residence was constructed for Norman Goold in 1937 for a fee of £450. Norman and his wife Alma Esther nee Bennet, lived at the house until the early 1950s. Norman's occupation was designated as a Labourer
and later a carpenter in the Electoral Rolls however he may have been involved in the construction of the house as his family were in the building profession. His mother and father lived at the nearby property at 5 Briggs Street. Information from aerial photographs indicates that there have been several programs undertaken at the residence most significantly the extension of the front verandah and additions to the north and rear of the original building.

Integrity/Authenticity

High
Moderate

Condition

Good

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