House

Statement of Significance

19-21 Ireland Street, Allanson, has cultural heritage significance for its aesthetic contribution to the Allanson streetscape and its social value to the town as a former shop.

Physical Description

19-21 Ireland Street, Allanson is a comparatively substantial residence in the streetscape due to its verandahs and gardens. It has a hipped and gabled painted iron roof, and weatherboard walls, and a bullnose wrap around verandah supported by timber posts with decorative iron lace brackets. The verandah has a timber balustrade and echoes the timber picket fence to the front boundary of the house and gardens. To the rear is a fibro-clad and timber battened, skillion roof section to the house. There is a weatherboard, fibro and iron garage/shed to the rear.

History

The townsite of Allanson was originally known as ‘West Collie’ and is located 6km west of the Collie townsite. A railway siding and station was established at West Collie and land set aside for a townsite in 1898. The West Collie townsite was gazetted in 1906. As much of the original townsite land was underlaid by coal seams, little land was released and a new subdivision was made in 1911 and gazetted in 1912. In 1916 the name of the town was changed to Allanson, probably after Arthur Allan Wilson, Collie MLA from 1908 to 1947.
A 1914 townsite plan of West Collie shows Ireland Street, although it is not identified as such. It is identified on a 1917 plan. In 1914, 19 Ireland Street (Lot 44) is shown as leased land with a capital value of £20 and an annual rental of 16/-.
19-21 Ireland Street occupies two lots (Lots 43 and 44). The 1996 Shire of Collie Municipal Heritage Inventory suggests that this was the site general store and post office. A plan of ‘Allanson Townsite , mid 1920s, as recalled and drawn by Mr Norm Young’ in A History of Allanson: Our Little Bush School identifies 19 Ireland Street as being a shop and Krentzen’s home. The plan locates the general store and post office at 13 Ireland Street.

Integrity/Authenticity

2016: Medium/ Medium

Condition

Good

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