Antiques Shop

Parent Place or Precinct

14896 Whatley Crescent Group, Maylands

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Statement of Significance

This place is a representative example of an early shop and has historic value for its association with the development of the Maylands townsite, making a significant contribution to this streetscape.

Physical Description

A two storey stucco brick shop and residence with balconettes in place of its two storey verandah. It has a very elaborately decorated pedimented parapet that employs classically derived elements in a free manner. It is a very good termination to the terrace of shops.

History

One of the key buildings in the Whatley Crescent precinct and a very important townscape element. It has great aesthetic value.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity - High Authenticity - High

Condition

Fair

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Attention Curios Collectables / Shop & Dwelling

Parent Place or Precinct

14896 Whatley Crescent Group, Maylands

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Statement of Significance

This place is a representative example of an early shop and has historic value for its association with the development of the Maylands townsite, making a significant contribution to this streetscape.

Physical Description

A single storey terrace of two shops with a very high parapet, heavily ornamented with strings and oversized dentils. There are vents in the façade with timber louvres in the parapet wall and the shopfronts appear to be authentic. It has stucco finished brickwork and a suspended awning over the pavement.

History

A terrace of two shops with great aesthetic value, which form an important component of the Whatley Crescent commercial precinct.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity - High Authenticity - High

Condition

Fair

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Maylands Parcel Office

Parent Place or Precinct

15823 Eighth Avenue Precinct

Condition

Poor to fair - October 1998

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This place is representative of the development of rail transport through the region. It is one of the few remaining early stations on the Eastern line. It has associations with the development of Maylands, in particular the Eighth Avenue townsite. It also has historic associations with the Ferguson's foundry.

Physical Description

A single storey brick and iron station and parcels office which once had a timber toilet block on the northeast side. The edge of the platform was removed during the electrification programme and a crude footbridge diminishes the presentation of this important place. It has load bearing English bond brick walls with timber joinery and a gabled iron roof extending over the building and platform.

History

The Maylands Parcel Office exhibits cultural features that demonstrate the functions of railway station buildings at the end of the nineteenth century: The parcels office worked as a post office and rail tickets were bought at the ticket office. It is a reminder of the days of steam rail and of early metropolitan passenger services. Tenders were called for the Falkirk Railway Station in August 1899 and Davenport's tender for 1133 pound was accepted. The station was to be known as Maylands. Maylands Parcel Office is one of the last of the Eastern Line stations of the type and is in near original condition. The Maylands Parcel Office has historic value for the contribution it made to the railway development of Western Australia when rail travel was beginning to overtake the river as a major factor influencing the growth of the suburbs. It was a stimulus for the development of the suburb and the whole Eighth Avenue precinct is an example of suburban development focused around a railway station. It was also associated with Ferguson's Foundry, one of the main suppliers of pipes for the Eastern Goldfields Water Supply and an employer for the area, for whose employees' convenience the railway was constructed.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity - High Authenticity - High

Condition

Good condition - building was renovated in 2001.

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Statement of Significance

There are several architectural elements of interest which contribute to the significance of the station, including; -the plan form which is typical of an early railway station consisting of a ticket hall, ticket office, parcel room and ladies waiting room -the tongue, grooved and v-jointed fascia and valance board -the large arched doorways to the ticket hall with keyed brickwork lining the arches, and -the timber posts and knee braces supporting the canopy over the platform The station is a demonstration of the way the railway operated in the early part of this century when each important suburban station was staffed by a station master and tickets were sold at the station and the parcels office operated like a post office. The complex is also the largest remaining suburban railway station and is a visible marker of the importance to urban development of rail as a mode of transport. The station, dating from 1899, is part of the early railway development of western Australia. At that time rail travel had largely superseded the river as a major factor directing suburban growth patterns. It also holds a connection with the name Falkirk, and has an association with the C. Y. O'Connor name on the plan. It also has an affinity with the architectural style and scale of the buildings of the shopping centre to the east and the Old Peninsula Hotel to the west. The building is one of a contemporary group forming part of the Maylands focus, the earlier section of the township. The site retains the capacity to yield archaeological information. It also has the potential to be developed as a teaching site displaying railway history. The place was the nexus for access by the community to transport and communication. It is the only station of the ear surviving on the old Eastern Line between Perth and Northam, and the only one known to have been executed in this style in the state.

Physical Description

This building is of simple design executed in face brickwork (now painted). No railway tracks remain at the building, but the island platform is still used as the railway passenger halt.

History

WAGR accepted the tender for the construction of Falkirk Station Buildings on the 31st August 1899. Though the plans and the tender described the buildings as Falkirk, the station actually opened for business as Maylands, no doubt to avoid confusion with the location of the nearby yard of Falkirk. The building continued to be used for railway purposes, in one way or another, until recent years.

Condition

The building is essentially sound, thought gutters and timber fascias need some attention. There are small amounts of graffiti on the painted brickwork facing the street.

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Albany Bell Hatchery (fmr)

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The place has significance as one of the first dedicated chicken hatcheries in Perth. It has an association with Peter Albany Bell and the Bell family, who were influential members of the community. It is unusual as agricultural buildings were generally not designed by architects - this building was designed by Powell, Cameron & Chisholm, notable architects within the region. It is representative of the Inter-War functionalist architectural style.

Physical Description

The majority of this building has been demolished with only the front façade remaining. Development approval for a multi-unit development was granted in 2005 with the retention of the façade wall as part of the development. The place was a well proportioned and executed example of the Inter-War Functionalist Style applied to an industrial building. The building was built in face and rendered brickwork. Under floor exposed external walls were in rustic limestone block. Brick piers were expressed in the front facade and side elevations giving structural support to the building walls. The entry porch is covered by a curved, counter levered, two tired concrete canopy and flanked by a brick squat corner tower element with rendered brick banded parapets to each side, giving the otherwise domestic character of the building a monumental effect. Other aspects of the building sides and rear exhibit typical domestic construction forms, with a pitched tile roof and overhanging eaves. Although original painted timber double hung windows are located at the side and rear of the building, what would have been timber windows at the street facade have been replaced with anodised aluminium sliding windows. The large Moreton Bay Fig Tree to the west of the building is a landmark and contributes to the streetscape.

History

The place was the premises of one of the first dedicated chicken hatcheries in Perth. It was established by the Bell family. Peter Albany Bell, father of Albany Matson Bell who established the chicken hatchery, was an important manufacturer and philanthropist in the early years of the twentieth century. Prior to subdivision, the hatchery was part of Peter Albany Bell's estate, comprising the 'Castle' building, completed in 1914 and developed on garden principles. Albany Bell Hatchery (fmr) was designed by architects Powell, Cameron and Chisholm and is an unusual example of an architect designed hatchery at a time when most buildings associated with the agricultural industry were accommodated in vernacular structures. The firm also designed the nearby Albany Bell Castle factory buildings for Peter Albany Bell in the 1910s. The house, garage/carport and warehouse building situated on the south-western section of the lot have little heritage significance.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity - Poor Authenticity - Moderate

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