YNP Tram Cottage

Author

Heritage Council

Place Number

02679

Location

3499 Wanneroo Rd Yanchep

Location Details

Heritage Area

Local Government

Wanneroo

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1913

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type Status Date Documents
Heritage List Adopted 07 Nov 2016
State Register Registered 16 Jun 1992 HCWebsite.Listing+ListingDocument

Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

Type Status Date Documents
(no listings)

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type Status Date Grading/Management
Category
Municipal Inventory Adopted 25 May 1994 Category 1A
Statewide Railway Heritage Surve Completed 01 Mar 1994
Classified by the National Trust Classified 06 Apr 1987

Parent Place or Precinct

04151 Yanchep National Park Precinct

Condition

In the early 1930's eight obsolete trams from the Perth Tramways were brought to Yanchep and used for accommodation, both for visitors and for the sustenance workers employed on erection of buildings and other work in the Park. Of these only two remain, used jointly with a concrete floor between them and covered by an open timber frame with corrugated iron roof. Each tram has been set on a stone base, 12' x 18' high at the front and sides and considerably higher at the rear where the ground slopes steeply to the valley below. One tram has been adapted for sleeping accommodation, and the other for living. They stand in a pleasant bushland area with the ruins of a cultivated garden nearby.

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch General Specific
Original Use Transport\Communications Rail: Other
Present Use Transport\Communications Rail: Other

Construction Materials

Type General Specific
Other METAL Other Metal
Other TIMBER Other Timber
Roof METAL Zincalume
Other STONE Other Stone

Creation Date

30 May 1989

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

01 Jan 2017

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