HOUSE, 19 QUARRY STREET

Author

City of Fremantle

Place Number

00988

Location

19 Quarry St Fremantle

Location Details

Local Government

Fremantle

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1891, Constructed from 1888

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type Status Date Documents
Heritage List YES 08 Mar 2007

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 18 Sep 2000 Level 2
Classified by the National Trust Classified 06 Oct 1980
Register of the National Estate Permanent 28 Sep 1982

Statement of Significance

The place is an example of a stone residence representing the expansion of Fremantle in the gold boom period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The place contributes to a substantially intact late nineteenth and early twentieth century streetscape close to the centre of Fremantle.

Physical Description

Single storey stone and brick house with quoining to corners and window and door openings to the walls of the house which has a zincalume hipped roof and two chimneys with corbelling extant. The place is set above the level of the pavement. This place contains a limestone feature.

History

Number 17 and number 19 were built on the lot by James Gilchrist, a policeman. One was built in 1888 and the second in 1891. The first occupant of the house built in 1891 was Lawrence Alexander, a manager at Falk and Co.

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch General Specific
Present Use RESIDENTIAL Single storey residence
Original Use RESIDENTIAL Single storey residence

Architectural Styles

Style
Victorian Filigree

Construction Materials

Type General Specific
Wall STONE Limestone
Wall BRICK Common Brick
Wall STONE Local Stone
Roof METAL Corrugated Iron

Historic Themes

General Specific
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY Settlements

Creation Date

30 May 1989

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

03 Mar 2020

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