House, 36 Broadway Street

Statement of Significance

• This place has some aesthetic value for its demonstration of the basic form and elements of the Federation Bungalow style.
• The place has historic value for its association with the development of this area of Bassendean in the early twentieth century.
• This place has social value as a demonstration of the form and scale of housing in the early 20th century.

Physical Description

A single storey brick and iron house with high hipped and vented gablet roof, with gabled feature above the entrance. There is an extensive verandah across the façade with the western corner of the verandah enclosed with brick and large window. The verandah is open, without a balustrade, with a timber deck. The verandah canopy is a continuation of the main hipped roof at the same pitch, supported on turned timber posts with timber frieze between the posts. There is a timbered gable above the entrance. Windows on the façade are all sash openings.

History

This portion of Bassendean was subdivided for residential development in c1912 although there were only approximately 15 houses in the street by 1920. The name, Broadway assigned to this road, was a logical response to its breadth and length. This residence was one of the first in the street as it was built c1913 for John Gorn and his wife Matilda nee
Kirk. In 1914, there were only four other residences on Broadway recorded in the Post Office Directories. John Gorn was a railway employee for all his working life. In the early 20th century he was a station master in several country towns, including Mundaring in 1912. By 1914, the Gorn's were living in Broadway, West Guildford as it was then known. The couple, who had married in 1902, had four sons and following John's death in 1931, Matilda lived on in the house until her death in 1940. The house was extended to the rear during the late 1980s or early 1990s and the 2004 owners noted that some of the internal wall arrangements had been altered.

Integrity/Authenticity

High
Moderate

Condition

Good

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