House, 24 Johnston Street

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Mechanics Instiute

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DEMOLISHED The building represented a substantial community commitment to the education, cultural and social health of male residents in the developing township.

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History

The Bunbury Mechanics Institute was formed in 1861. One of the driving forces behind its establishment was Resident Magistrate, George Eliot. The Mechanics Institute operated a modest library and organized lectures to keep the local community informed of worldly affairs. Meetings were held in the former Military Barracks until 1868, when a grand brick structure was built on the corner of Wittenoom Street and Wellington Street. The foundation stone was laid in January 1868 and a gala opening was held on 24 November 1868. That night, the building resounded with readings, music and singing to celebrate the occasion. The Bunbury Municipal Council also met in the Mechanics Institute prior to the construction of the Municipal Chambers in 1897. At a later stage, James Sloan operated a carrier business from the Mechanics Institute before moving into the aerated water business. The Mechanics Institute was demolished when Sloan (or later Stokes, who bought Sloan’s business) built a factory on the site.

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Site of Bunbury Railway Station Group (fmr)

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Bunbury City Council reported in 1988 that only the railway station remains. The other items have been demolished or removed. As entered in the interim list: comprising former station , the Round House Loco Depot, Goods Shed, signalling equipment near Cornwall Street and historic locomotives and rolling stock, Blair Street, Bunbury. Of these only only the former station, Blair Street, Bunbury, remains (see record 17499).

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St Patrick's Roman Catholic Parish House

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00345 Catholic Cathedral Precinct, Bunbury

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War Memorial

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00348 St Patrick's Anglican Church (fmr) & War Memorial, Rathmines

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Rotary Lookout Tower

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Marlston Hill has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons: it has strong landmark qualities as a dominant natural landscape feature; its nomenclature is associated historically with Surveyor J.S. Roe from his homeland, England; Strategic planning for a high-class inner-city mixed-use precinct at Marlston Hill represents an outward sign of the growth and maturity of the Port City of Bunbury; and the place has been the location from which many historic photographs have been taken of the city and town of Bunbury.

Physical Description

Marlston Hill is a natural feature consisting of a high sand dune hill overlooking Koombana Bay and the Indian Ocean, located at the northern most end of the Bunbury Central Business District. This elevated site has been used for many purposes e.g. lookout point; site of previous lighthouses; place for industrial fuel storage tanks; and is currently a showcase precinct for mixed-use high density residential and commercial use. Many photographs of Bunbury down through the years can be linked to shots taken from Marlston Hill, providing a unique set of documents for comparative analysis. At the top of the hill is a reinforced concrete lookout tower. See entry B001.2

History

Marlston Hill has been known by several different names over the last century. The Aboriginal name for it is Bulligup/Bullyup and in 1841 it was known as Flagstaff Hill. There is also reference in an 1841 hydrographic survey of Koombana Bay and environs by John Lort Stokes of the “Beagle” of the feature being called Signal Hill. The name Marlston Hill appears on cadastral maps as early as June 1849 and is thought to be given by Surveyor S. J Roe, after the Marlston House Hermitage in Newbury in Berkshire, England (owned by a family named Bunbury). Roe was born in 1797 near Newbury, where his father was the local rector. Marlston Hill is the highest part of the harbour area and was used as a trigg point for the original town survey in 1841. A lighthouse was built on top of the hill c 1870. It was replaced in 1901 and relocated to another position on Marlston Drive in 1971. (See B001.2 and B112) Marlston Hill was also an industrial area and then in 1988, the Rotary Club built Lookout Tower on top of the hill with funds from the community and Bicentennial grants. The Rotary Tower is used a popular lookout and hosts telecommunications equipment. In 1996 an urban renewal program began on Marston Hill which aimed at rezoning the land and removing any sign of industry. This resulted in the rapid growth of the area with housing and commercial premises, as well as the establishment of Jetty Park. Jetty Park recognizes the maritime heritage of the area with a nautical theme and uses timber from the old Bunbury timber jetty for bollards and tree guards. Walkways link the area with the CBD. The Marlston Hill Redevelopment Project was officially opened by the Minister for Lands, Doug Shave, in February 1998. The aim of the project was to create a seamless flow of development between the city and the water. The project won the Urban Development Institute of Australia’s National Award for Urban Renewal in 2000. The place now provides business, recreational and lifestyle opportunities.

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Marlston Hill Low to Medium degree of integrity (original intent not clear, current use has redeveloped the area). Low degree of authenticity with much change having occurred. (These statements based on street survey only).

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Condition assessed as good (assessed from streetscape survey only).

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Basalt Rock Walls, Paisley Centre, Bunbury

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• Basalt Rock Walls has aesthetic value as a wall constructed from Bunbury Basalt which has distinctive characteristics being a fine- grained hard rock usually black or grey in colour.
• The use of Bunbury basalt to construct Basalt Rock Walls may be uncommon as it was primarily used in the construction of roads.

Physical Description

The place comprises two random rubble walls made from Bunbury basalt. The Basalt is grey to black in colour and appears to be set in concrete. The longer wall surrounds the rear of the Paisley Centre, now the Bunbury Museum and was constructed in 1990. It serves as a diving wall between the Paisley Centre and the adjacent shopping precinct. The smaller walls are used as landscaping and contain shrubs and other plants in the adjacent area. The Bunbury Basalt is a unique volcanic rock formation found in very few places in the world, the only other place in Australia where it can be seen is at Black Point, South coast in the Shire of Manjimup, WA some hundreds of kilometres from Bunbury and only accessible by four wheel drive. It was formed as part of the Kerguelen oceanic plateau found in the Southern Indian Ocean. The plateau as formed during the break up of Gondwana approx 130 million years ago.

History

Bunbury basalt is the term given to the black basalt formation most evident along the beach front at Bunbury, in Capel, and Black Point in D’Entrecasteaux National Park on the south west coast of Western Australia. These examples are part of the Kerguelen large igneous province that formed 130 to 95 million years ago as Australia, India and Antarctica split apart. The characteristic hexagonal columns or pillars of basalt were formed by the movement of molten basaltic lava that followed volcanic eruptions during the period. As with other basalt formations, Bunbury Basalt is a fine- grained hard rock usually black or grey in colour. Quarrying of the basalt along the Bunbury shorefront began in the 1890s to extract basalt for macadam road construction. The Bunbury municipal quarry was operational between 1890 and the 1960s, producing large amounts of crushed gravel for road material. In the 1940s, the operations were threatened with closure due to a dispute between the Western Australian government and the Bunbury Council over whether the quarrying was permissible at the place, which had been awarded Class A reserve status. Basalt is still extracted and in use, but is no longer extracted from the resource located along the beach front, which is now utilised as a community beach and picnic area. The Bunbury Basalt Quarry is currently under operation by the Hanson Heidelberg Cement Group is recognised as a ‘major strategic resource’ of the greater Bunbury region. Basalt continues to be extracted from the quarry in 2016 for use in the construction industry and road work operations. Basalt Rock Walls, Paisley Centre, Bunbury was constructed in 1990. There is no further information available about the construction of this wall.

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Paisley Centre

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The building has considerable historic and architectural significance, Lord John Forrest attended a school on the same site between 1853 and 1862 as well as Sir James Mitchell. Architecturally its style predates the gold rush period, but it is self assertive character and durable technology heralds the emergence of a centre of commerce from rural townscape.

Physical Description

The Boys School is constructed of brick and local sandstone quions. It has sturdy trusses carrying a shingled roof which is now sheeted with corrugated asbestos. As with Perth Old Boys' School in St George's Terrace (where Gothic had been considered an appropriate style for education in 1852) the Bunbury Boys' School incorporates traces of ecliastical influences and mixes them with a touch of military scale and directness, thus combining those two elements most essential to the production of upright character in its students. In 1900, the building was remodelled and enlarged when Boys' and Girls' Schools were again integrated.

History

Assessment 1973 Architect: probably Hardwick (PWD information) or George Temple Pool Builder: G W Floy (shown on plan 728)

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Statement of Significance

The Government Boy's School (fmr) has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons: the place defines the corner of Arthur and Stephen Streets. It is an unusual and interesting element in the townscape relative to the city centre and it is a competent and confident example of educational architecture in the Victorian Rustic Gothic style; the place was the first substantial school building on the site. It is now the last remaining evidence of nineteenth century state education in Bunbury; the place demonstrates, in fabric form, a pattern of educational growth and improvement in amenity over the period 1886 to 1914. The place has a close association with the development of education in Bunbury and demonstrates the importance of Bunbury as a regional educational centre; the place is recognised by the community for its contribution to the sense of place and historical identity in the community; and, the place is representative of a small number of substantial school buildings of its time. Today, it maintains high social significance as a venue serving recreational, community and commercial uses.

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The Government Boy's School (fmr) (also known as the Paisley Centre) is a single storey building of red brick constructed in 1886 to a George Temple Poole plan dated November 1885, designed in the Victorian Rustic Gothic style comprising a school hall, and a wing containing classrooms. It was built for the Public Works Department on part of land that was originally the Convict Depot. The Paisley Centre is typical of many schools built in Western Australia between 1850 and 1900. The basic building - the school hall and the central westward extending wing - exhibits the accepted official approach to school architecture of the period - a fairly austere rendering of the symbolically appropriate Gothic revival style, characterised by tall masonry walls, lancet windows with stone quoining, a steeply pitched roof, prominent gables, strongly modelled chimneys, and irregular roof massing. Materials employed were those easily produced locally: brick walls, timber floors, timber framed double sash windows, timber frame roof and sheoak shingle cladding. The roof, carried by timber trusses, was originally of shingles, later covered by corrugated iron and then, later again, by corrugated asbestos sheeting. After 1890, the influence of the Gothic style in educational architecture waned, and the additions to Paisley Centre from 1894 onwards take on a more simple style. Within the building, the remains of the school hall still allow a sense of how the focal point of the school would have appeared in its earliest period of development. Of particular interest is the upper wall, corbels, timber and steel arched roof trusses and timber lined ceiling, together with high level windows. The Paisley Centre has a dominant massing of sharply pitched roofs, gables and chimneys together with interesting Arthur Street elevations which reflect both the earliest and latest period of development of the building. The remaining lancet windows combined with the steeply pitched gables survive and typify the earliest period of the building's design. In 1984, subsequent to the leasing of the place to the Bunbury Musical Comedy Group Inc., the building underwent extensive physical change to accommodate theatre requirements, including major internal changes affecting many walls and internal features. The external fabric, apart from the intrusion of one door on the south side and the removal of windows and addition of two doors to the north side remained reasonably intact. Some other minor modifications affected the northernmost entry porch on the west elevation. In 1974, the land was vested in the City of Bunbury as a B class reserve. By 1990, most of the associated school buildings had been demolished and car parks surrounded the building, substantially altering the physical and historical context of the building. In 2010 the place is located adjacent to a shopping centre and its associated carparks. A cafe operates from the rear portion of the building. The place is included in the Heritage Council of Western Australia's State Register of Heritage Places. The Register Documentation can be accessed at www.heritage.wa.gov.au.

History

The building known as the Paisley Centre was built as the Bunbury State School in 1886. After the school closed in 1962 it was renamed the Paisley Centre in honour of T W Paisley, who was headmaster from 1894 to 1914 and a member of the school board from 1914 to 1921. A school room was established in Bunbury in 1850 with 16 boys and by 1855, girls were also being taught. By 1885, the building was proving inadequate and the Public Works Department drew up plans for a new school. Builder G W Floyd commenced construction in 1886 and the building was completed in November of that year. The new building was a vast improvement, and as student numbers increased in the following years, additional buildings were constructed on the site. By 1893, the school was in need of further expansion. In 1894, a contract was let to Robinson, Spicer and Thompson for major works, including the construction of a school hall. Part of the school was designated a girls’ school and W T Paisley was appointed headmaster of the Boys’ School. Further developments over the years included the addition of sheds, toilet blocks, a home economics room and minor buildings. In 1917, the Girls’ School was converted for use as a High School. Until 1919, the Bunbury State School was the only Government education facility in Bunbury. It was also the administrative centre for all board-governed schools in the district. With other schools opening in Bunbury and a diminishing number of students the school was closed in 1962. Some of the buildings were demolished., including the girl’s school, home economic buildings and sheds. In the same year the school was taken over by the Bunbury Technical College to provide full time tertiary education. The technical college had been using the classrooms for evening classes since 1942 and continued to use the place until 1972 when they relocated elsewhere. The buildings were then acquired by the Bunbury Town Council and renamed the Paisley Centre. The Paisley Centre became a dance school and the Bunbury Tourist Office. From 1973 to May 1984 the place was leased to the Bunbury Musical Comedy Inc and converted to a theatre. The place has also been used as a coffee shop. Thomas William Paisley was born in Bermuda and came to Western Australia in 1863 aboard the Merchantman, a convict transport. He worked as a pupil teacher in Fremantle and in 1881 was appointed master at Bunbury Government School in Arthur Street. He was also a justice of the peace, an Anglican lay preacher, a foundation committee member of “Sailors’ Rest”, and a member of the Bunbury Tennis Club and the District Nursing Association. He was the first secretary of the Bunbury Building Society, a prominent Freemason and became a town councillor after his retirement (1914-1926). Paisley married Martha McGregor, who was founding settler John Scott’s stepdaughter, and they had six children. W T Paisley died in 1928. This history is based on Heritage Council of Western Australia, ‘Register of Heritage Places: Paisley Centre, Bunbury’, 1994 (no author attributed).

Integrity/Authenticity

The fabric remains largely intact. Integrity of the exterior is good while the interior is impaired through remodelling for other purposes. Conversion to a theatre required internal changes and modification/removal of doors and windows. Some associated school buildings have been demolished and the land claimed for commercial use; Council Car Park; and recently, the Centrepoint Shopping Centre.

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Exterior timber repainted and reroofed in mid 1997. See: Heritage Assessment by Considine & Griffiths for the City of Bunbury dated 1991.

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Bedford Hall Site

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DEMOLISHED Bedford Hall was important venue for the Bunbury community for church, school and civic functions from 1906. It was also the birthplace of commercial radio broadcasting for Bunbury & districts.

Physical Description

DEMOLISHED. Foundation Stone located at King Cottage Museum, 77 Forrest Avenue.

History

The Anglican/Church of England trustees had a church hall built on Lot 239 in 1906. The foundation stone was laid on 27 September 1906 by His Excellency, Admiral Sir Frederick Bedford GCB. The Hall, which was named in his honour, was first used as a church-run school for a short period. At one stage, Bedford Hall vied with the Rechabite Hall and Lyric Theatre as Bunbury’s most popular dance hall. It was well patronised for dances, balls, concerts, community meetings and civic functions. There was also a supper room at the hall, which was used for the town’s first commercial radio broadcasts. Circa 1950s/60s, the hall was occupied by the firm of Sandovers. Bedford Hall was demolished in the early 1960s.

Integrity/Authenticity

DEMOLISHED 1962.

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Manse

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House & Windmill

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House and Windmill, 19 Austral Parade, a single storey brick and tile house has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons: the place is a fine example of the Inter War California Bungalow style of architecture; the place has landmark qualities and contributes significantly to the streetscape and the community's sense of place, particularly as the property retains a windmill; the windmill is rare surviving example of a type of technology that was once common for lifting household water supplies from underground wells or reservoirs.

Physical Description

House, 19 Austral Parade is a single story brick and tile house with a symmetrical facade designed as an example of the Inter War California Bungalow style of architecture. The walls are red face brick. The roof is hipped with two small gables and clad with tiles. The facade has a central front door with sidelights flanked by two sets of double hung timber sash windows on each side. The verandah wraps around the building, has a continuous tiled roof and is supported by rendered masonry posts. The house is elevated with three steps with a curved rendered masonry wall either side leading up to the front verandah. There are three decorative chimneys evident. There is a steel framed windmill to the rear of the house.

History

House and Windmill, 19 Austral Parade, was built circa 1920. A more precise date of construction and history has not been possible as no entry for the lot could be found in available City of Bunbury Rate Books. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was common for householders to have a windmill in their yard. The windmill converted the energy of wind to rotational motion by means of vanes (called sails). Domestic windmills provided energy to wind pumps to lift water from an underground reservoir.

Integrity/Authenticity

High degree of integrity (original intent clear, current use compatible, high long term sustainability). High degree of authenticity with much original fabric remaining. (These statements based on street survey only).

Condition

Exterior: Condition assessed as good (assessed from streetscape survey only). Windmill - Condition assessed as good (assessed from streetscape survey only).

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Buswell Cottage

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Buswell Cottage, 30 Austral Parade, a single storey rendered masonry and iron house , has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons: it was the home of local brickmaking manufacturer, Mr W.J. Buswell, whose family have a long association with the Bunbury district; the place has landmark qualities and contributes significantly to the streetscape and the community's sense of place.

Physical Description

Buswell Cottage, 30 Austral Parade is a single storey rendered masonry and iron house with an altered asymmetrical facade constructed in the Federation period. The walls are rendered masonry. The roof is hipped and clad with corrugated iron. The verandah has a separate corrugated iron bullnose roof which does not extend the full length of the front façade and is supported by rendered masonry and decorative concrete posts. There is a protruding front room under the bullnose verandah which is a later addition. There is a separate awning over the windows to the recessed side of the house. The façade has a central front door and replacement double hung timber sash and fixed pane windows with modern security grills installed. The house is situated at street level and there are two simple chimneys evident.

History

Austral Parade is one of the earliest residential streets in Bunbury and was also one of the major traffic routes in and out of Bunbury and to Australind. It was formerly called White Road as it was made from crushed limestone. Buswell Cottage was built c 1899 as the family home of Walter John (Jack) Buswell, a local brick manufacturer. By 1903, Jack Buswell was in partnership with Harry North and operating at brick making business a Glen Iris. No entries could be found for this property in the available Municipality of Bunbury Rate books.

Integrity/Authenticity

High degree of integrity (original intent clear, current use compatible, high long term sustainability). Medium degree of authenticity - alterations but with much original fabric remaining (These statements based on street survey only).

Condition

Condition assessed as good (assessed from streetscape survey only).

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House

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House, 32 Austral Parade, a single storey brick and tile house has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons: the place is a fine intact example of the Federation Queen Anne style of architecture; the place has landmark qualities and contributes significantly to the streetscape and the community's sense of place.

Physical Description

House, 32 Austral Parade is a single storey, rendered masonry and iron house with a symmetrical facade designed as a fine example of the Federation Queen Anne style of architecture. The walls are rendered masonry. The roof is hipped and gabled and clad with corrugated iron with timber eaves brackets. The front elevation has a central front door with fan and sidelights flanked on either side by a projecting bay with double hung sash windows and a gable with finials and decroative timber elements above each bay. The verandah has a separate corrugated iron roof and is supported by timber posts. The house is elevated from the street and there are steps leading to the front verandah. There are two corbelled chimneys evident.

History

Austral Parade is one of the earliest residential streets in Bunbury and was also one of the major traffic routes in and out of Bunbury and to Australind. It was formerly called White Road as it was made from crushed limestone. House, 32 Austral Parade was built c. 1910. The exact date of construction is not known as no entry for this lot could be found in the available Municipality of Bunbury Rate Books prior to 1951. In 1951, the landmark residence was owned and occupied by A G and E M Baxter. At the time it was Number 2 Austral Parade. The house is reputed to have impressive internal features such as high ceilings, polished jarrah floors and a grand hallway entrance.

Integrity/Authenticity

High degree of integrity (conserved, original intent clear, current use compatible, high long term sustainability). High degree of authenticity with much original fabric remaining. (These statements based on street survey only).

Condition

Condition assessed as very good (assessed from streetscape survey only).

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Craigie Lea

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Craigie Lea, 115 Beach Street, a single storey brick and iron house (now commercial building) has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons: the place is a late representive example of the Victorian Georgian style of residential housing common to Perth, Fremantle and the South West of Western Australia during this time period; the place contributes to the streetscape and the community's sense of place; the place is associated with the Manning family, who were early farming pioneers in the Bunbury district; the place represents the growth of Bunbury and the improvement in housing due to the influence of the goldrush and financial boom of the 1890s.

Physical Description

Craigie Lea (fmr), 115 Beach Road is a single storey rendered masonry and iron former house constructed in the Victorian Georgian style of architecture. The walls are rendered masonry. The roof is hipped and clad with corrugated iron. The verandah is under a separate corrugated iron roof supported by timber posts. The symmetrical front façade has a central front door flanked on either side by timber double hung sash windows. There is a single storey addition at the rear. There are two rendered masonry chimneys evident. The house is situated at street level. There is a rendered masonry and timber picket wall to the front boundary line. Documentary and physical evidence suggests that the verandah have been replaced, external brick walls rendered and painted over the original face brick, windows replaced with aluminium and the roof sheeting replaced. Further changes such as the addition of a waiting room were made when the place was converted for use as an ophthalmologist's rooms.

History

In 1891, Clement Magowan a tin miner from Greenbushes, subdivided his land on what was then Swamp Road. He sold Lots 1 – 5 to Joseph Manning in June 1897. The Manning family were early farmers in the Bunbury district. Craigie Lea was built on Lot 3 by Manning and bricklayer Charles Hill. The house was named after a place in Scotland near where Manning’s wife Jane was born. At the time it was built, Craigie Lea was on the urban fringe of Bunbury. Joseph Manning is attributed to carving out a track through another section of his land at Punchbowl from the house to the beach. This track was then used by the Bunbury Council as a basis for Swamp Road. The Manning family objected to the name and in 1906 Beach Road was gazetted as ‘westward from Vasse Road (Spencer Street) to William Street, thence south-west to a link road.’ Members of the Manning family lived at Craigie Lea from 1897 to 1983, when the property was brought by Naphill Enterprises P/L. In 1987 the place was sold again to Triben Pty Ltd, Tispen Pty Ltd and Marlic Pty Ltd who traded as Spencer Management Services. At this time of the sale the property was derelict and the new owners converted Craigie Lea into ophthalmologists rooms. This included replacing timber window frames with aluminium, adding a large waiting room to the rear, replacing the ceilings and reconstructing the verandahs. The brickwork was also rendered as a repair strategy and the main entrance was relocated to the eastern side of the building. Craigie Lea is still used as ophthalmologists rooms and is surrounded by residential properties, residential converted to business premises and commercial operations. This history is based on the Documentary Evidence in Heritage Council of Western Australia, ‘Register of Heritage Places: Below Threshold - Craigie Lea’, prepared by Natasha Georgiou, 1998.

Integrity/Authenticity

Low degree of integrity (original use altered). Medium to low degree of authenticity - alterations but with some original fabric remaining (These statements based on street survey only).

Condition

Condition assessed as good (assessed from streetscape survey only).Previous notes state:Major reconstruction and additions in mid 1980s.

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Statement of Significance

The building is of architectural significance to the evolution of Australian building, illustrating a common, early form of housing in the south-west of W.A.

Physical Description

DESCRIPTION: "C" 4/S/SO Title Particulars: Lot No: 3 "Craigie Lee" represents a development of the bungalow form of the late 19th century. Being unpainted, it shows bricks with the typical, mellow colours seen in Perth. The verandah has been added at a later stage and probably replaced a more delicate corrugated iron original.

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Assessment 1980

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Myrniong

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Myrniong, 50 Beach Road (1925), a single storeyed brick and tile Federation style Bungalow residence, has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons; the place is a fine, late example of the Federation Bungalow style, displaying well considered form and fine details and a landmark quality; the place is a good example of the work of prominent regional architect, Eustace Gresley Cohen; and, the place contributes to Bunbury’s sense of place as an intact example of early Twentieth Century domestic architecture.

Physical Description

Myrniong, 50 Beach Road is a large single storey, brick and tile house with an asymmetrical facade designed as a late example of the Federation Bungalow style of architecture. Myrniong is located on the north-east corner of the junction of Beach Road and Palm Street, Bunbury. The walls are painted brick. The roof is hipped with a prominent and finely detailed gable to the main frontage and clad with tiles. The verandah has a broken back tiled roof and is supported by timber posts with a simple scalloped timber valance between posts. There is a timber and glass door at the side entrance and timber framed windows along the front façade. There is a limestone pillar and iron wall to the front boundary line. There is a chimney with chimney pots evident. Both street frontages of Myrniong have a large garden with rose bushes, mature trees, numerous shrubs and an extensive lawn. The place is included in the Heritage Council's State Register of Heritage Places and a section of the physical evidence description (compiled by John Loreck Architect in 1999) included in the assessment documentation is included below as it includes a detailed description of the interior of the place: "Internally, the finishes consist typically of carpeted floors, plastered walls and fibrous plaster ceilings, without cornices. The windows have curtain pelmets of timber with a central simple geometric motif. The main rooms are embellished with timber shelves on decorative brackets. The entrance hall addresses Palm Street, is aligned east-west and is entered through a pair of doors with leadlight in the upper panels. On the south wall, about 1.6 metres above floor level, a timber shelf, with a double bullnose, is supported on simple timber brackets. A picture rail is located 2.7 metres above floor level. The hall has a segmented arched opening, the springing points and head being about 2.1 metres and 2.4 meters above floor level, respectively. Immediately beyond the arched opening are two doors to the right leading, respectively, to the second and main bedrooms. At this point the hallway ends and a passage runs off it at 90 degrees. About halfway along the passage are two doors, leading to the third bedroom and bathroom, respectively. At the end of the passage is a door leading to the dining room. The second bedroom has exposed tongue in groove floorboards, and a pair of sliding sash windows with six panes per sash. The main bedroom has a pair of windows identical to those in the second bedroom. Both pairs of windows are arranged to each side of the gable addressing Beach Road, reinforcing the symmetry of the Beach Road elevation. A pair of French doors lead on to the east verandah. The French doors have four panes across, two for each door, and five panes high. The top two panes have a segmented arched head, with timber spandrels to each side, with a horizontal door head. In the south-west corner of the main bedroom is a timber shelf, similarly detailed to the hallway shelf. The third bedroom has a pair of French doors, identical to those in the main bedroom. The bathroom has a carpeted floor with a quarter round skirting. The walls to the shower recess are tiled up to a height of about 1.8 metres above floor level. A laminated plastic splashback is located over the basin and the same material is also used on the basin side of a partition that separates the basin from the toilet. On the toilet side of the partition, wallpaper has been applied. A sliding sash window is located in the eastern wall and has four obscure panes per sliding sash. By proceeding left or north from the entrance hall, one arrives in the living room. The living room is aligned with the axis running east-west. The hallway door has, on the living room side, a decorative cornice at head height, as do the adjacent French doors that lead on to the front verandah, near the entrance doors. The cornices consist of a double bullnose shelf supported by console brackets. Centrally located on the wall addressing Palm Street are two narrow sliding sash windows, with four panes per sash A split-system air conditioner has been mounted in recent times halfway between the pelmet and the ceiling. Centred on the north wall is a brick fireplace with a jarrah chimneypiece. The chimneypiece consists from bottom to top of a lower shelf sitting directly on the top course of brickwork, another shelf about 200mm higher supported on console brackets, and jarrah panelling surmounted by an a cornice at door head height. To the east of the fireplace is a shelf detailed similarly to the hallway shelf. Adjacent to the shelf is a timber door, leading to the dining room, with the bottom two panels identical to the other internal doors. The upper part of the door has eight glazed panels arranged in two rows of four, one above the other. At the end of the passage, is the dining room, with exposed floor boards about 100mm wide. The window to the north has two horizontally sliding sash windows each side of a central fixed sash. All three sashes have three panes, one above the other. The kitchen, located to the east of the dining room, and built in the 1940s, has a timber floor over which vinyl has been applied. The plaster ceiling is formed into square panels by 75mm by 25mm timber cover strips, and contained by plaster cornice. The walls are finished with wall tiles or plaster up to about 1.8 metres above floor level, over which is a textured render, similar to that used on the external walls above head height, indicating that the wall between the dining room and kitchen was an external wall. It is likely that the kitchen was originally a verandah or sleepout. To the west of the dining room is a bedroom, which was probably the original kitchen. A fireplace on the south wall, adjacent to the fireplace on the north wall of the living room, has been converted into a low wardrobe. North of the dining room is a sunroom. The tongues in groove timber floorboards are about 100mm wide, and have a quarter round timber skirting. In the north wall is a continuous window, which consists of horizontally sliding sash windows, with six panes per sash. The walls below will height are lined with vertical tongue in groove boards, and clad externally with weatherboards. The timber lining also continues above window head height for about 300mm, above which is a fibrous cement lining. The fibrous plaster ceiling is raked. To the west of the sunroom is a small room used as a study. The floor is concrete, over which carpet has been applied. A timber shelf, similar to but not identical to the shelves in the living, dining and main bedrooms, is located in the south-west corner. The pair of casement windows in the west wall have six panes per sash. The ceiling is raked and in the same plane as the sunroom ceiling, indicating that these two rooms, and , as previously stated, the kitchen as well, where originally part of a verandah that extended for almost the entire perimeter of Myrniong. A laundry with a concrete floor has been added to the north of the study, and is entered from an external door on the east side. Internally, the south wall is painted and the other walls are rendered. The ceiling consists of raking fibrous cement. The external walls are painted and the roof is tiled. A garage is situated to the east of the kitchen, and a garage that forms a separate element to the main roof of Myrniong. To the north of the garage is a bathroom and toilet. Circa 1960 a narrow garage with a flat roof was added to the 1940s garage Circa 1975 a garage addressing Palm Street was also added. The rear of this garage is about two metres to the west of the window of the fourth bedroom." The place is included in the Heritage Council of Western Australia's State Register of Heritage Places. The register documentation can be access at www.heritage.wa.gov.au Note this place was not reinspected internally in 2010.

History

Myrniong was built in 1925/26 for Maria and George Rose. It was named after Myrniong, a small town between Melbourne and Ballarat in Victoria. The land was originally part of Lot 105 which was subdivided in 1897 to form Lots 106 and 107. Although the land changed hands a number of times, it was not developed until it was purchased by Maria Rose and her brother-in-law George Rose in July 1925. By September 1925, the land was solely in Maria’s name. Maria commissioned architect Eustace Cohen to design a house and the contract for construction was awarded to local builder, J G Hough and Sons. The house had three bedrooms, one bathroom, a kitchen, living room and dining room. It was completed in 1926. Eustace Cohen (born London, 1881) was articled to Thomas Lockwood and Sons at Chester before working for Guy Dawber. He emigrated to Western Australia due to ill health in 1904 and set up practice in Bunbury and Busselton (1906-1913). He moved to Perth in 1914, where he formed a partnership with Joseph Eales, trading as Eales and Cohen. Cohen was instrumental in bringing the Arts and Crafts movement to Western Australia. The earliest examples of his work in Bunbury and Busselton display his interpretation of vernacular homes in the Arts and Crafts manner. Maria Rose died on the 24 August 1943 and Myrniong was left to her son, Robert Henry Rose III and John Strachan. In 1945 they sold the house to Ivor Thomas Williams, a farmer from Boyanup who had lost his right hand in a Volunteer Defense Corp activity and decided to retire to Bunbury. Williams did not stay retired for long and opened a toy shop and became a joint owner of Julianne restaurant. As a result he sold Myrniong in August 1946 to be closer to both businesses. The new owner was Forrest Ramsay Hay, a petrol station owner and a Mayor of Bunbury from 1959 to 1963. Hay renovated and added extra rooms to Myrniong including a laundry and a garage. On 2 May 1949 he sold the place to Rodney Forster Johnston, a nephew of Maria Rose. At about this time Johnston added two new garages. In 1961 the title was cancelled and the lot number changed to 206. In 1998 the house was still owned by Johnston and his wife. The place continues to be a private residence. [George Rose was the son of an early Bunbury farmer Robert Henry Rose I and since 1893 had been managing Parkfield, their large family property at Australind. Maria's father was Thomas Hayward, one of the earliest storekeepers in Bunbury and a partner of Robert Henry Rose I at Parkfield. Maria married Robert Henry Rose II in 1883 and they lived on his farm Roelands on the Collie River. After his death in 1900, Maria continued living at Roelands with her seven children. Within two months of purchasing the land in Beach Road, George Rose transferred the property to Eliza who at this time was living on another Rose property called Carlaminda in Ferguson.] This history is partly based on the Documentary Evidence in Heritage Council of Western Australia, ‘Register of Heritage Places: Myrniong’ prepared by Natasha Georgiou, 1999.

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High degree of integrity (original intent clear, current use compatible, high long term sustainability). High degree of authenticity with much original fabric remaining. (These statements based on street survey only). Previous notes indicate that the verandah floorboards and posts have been replaced.

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Condition assessed as good (assessed from streetscape survey only).

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House, 54 Beach Road, a single storey timber and tile house has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons: the place is a late example of the Federation Bungalow style of residential houses common Bunbury during this period; the place contributes to the streetscape and the community's sense of place.

Physical Description

House, 54 Beach Road is a single storey timber and tiled house constructed as a late example of the Federation Bungalow style of architecture. The walls are timber framed and clad with timber weatherboards to dado height with fibre cement sheeting above. The roof is hipped and clad with tiles. The verandah is under a continuous tiled roof supported by timber posts. The symmetrical front façade has a central front door with side and fanlights flanked on either side by timber framed casement windows. There is one face brick chimney with chimney pot evident. There is a carport addition to the side. The house is situated at street level and there is a brick pillar and timber picket fence to the front boundary line.

History

Beach Road was originally called Swamp Road. The name was changed at some stage before the 1920s. House, 54 Beach Road was built in the 1940s. Lot 207 was vacant land owned by William Gibson between c 1920 and at least 1941. By 1951, a house had been built on the lot. At this time, it was owned by William and Muriel Elliot and was numbered 15 Beach Road.

Integrity/Authenticity

High degree of integrity (original intent clear, current use compatible, high long term sustainability). High degree of authenticity with much original fabric remaining. (These statements based on street survey only).

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Condition assessed as good (assessed from streetscape survey only).

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House, 99 Beach Road, a single storey brick and iron house has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons: the place is a fine example of the Federation Queen Anne style of architecture; the place has landmark qualities and contributes significantly to the streetscape and the community's sense of place.

Physical Description

House, 99 Beach Road is a single storey, brick, rendered masonry and iron house with an asymmetrical facade designed as an example of the Federation Queen Anne style of architecture. The walls are painted brick with rendered masonry quoins. The roof is hipped and gabled and clad with corrugated iron. The gable ends have decorative timber features. The verandah has a separate corrugated iron roof and is supported by timber posts. A fabric awning encloses the verandah. The front door has fan and sidelights and is under the verandah with decorative iron brackets to the verandah entrance. On the left side the front room protrudes with two double hung sash windows with modern security screens installed. The front façade has two circular rendered features. There are two rendered masonry chimneys with chimney pots evident. There is a corrugated iron lean-to to one side of the house and a steel post and mesh fence to the front boundary line.

History

Beach Road was originally called Swamp Road. The name was changed at some stage before the 1920s. The area was surveyed by W B Mitchell in 1896 and it is thought that House, 99 Beach Road was built soon after. The exact date of construction has not been determined as the lot could not be found in available Municipality of Bunbury Rate Books. By 1931, House, 99 Beach Road was owned and occupied by Richard Lugg. By 1941, Mrs Grosvernor was the owner but no occupant was listed in the rate book. L Johnson owned the house in 1951, at which time it was occupied by Ausden and Prosser. The property has had several changes in street number in 1931 it was 26 Beach Road and in 1951 it was 87 Beach Road.

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High degree of integrity (original intent clear, current use compatible, high long term sustainability). High degree of authenticity with much original fabric remaining. (These statements based on street survey only).

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Condition assessed as good (assessed from streetscape survey only).

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Railway Marshalling Yards & Environs (fmr)

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DEMOLISHED The railway complex of industrial archaeological significance which survived the steam era was all removed from the City Centre in 1985 and entirely by 1988, except for the 1904 Railway Station now reused for commercial purposes. Some components such as the impressive Round House; G class locomotives; and rail coaches are now housed in a neighbouring shire at the Boyanup Museum. Signalling equipment is presumed to have been moved to the Westrail complex at Picton.

Physical Description

DEMOLISHED

History

The site is associated with the Perth-Bunbury Railway and comprised the Round House, goods shed, pedestrian overbridge and other structures, which spread over a large area along what is now Blair Street. The Perth-Bunbury Railway line was formally opened on 8 September 1893, although trains had been running for some weeks before. The ceremony was performed by the Governor, Sir W. F. C. Robinson. The track ran alongside what is now Blair Street to a station and marshalling yard east of the town. The completion of the Perth-Bunbury Railway saw Bunbury connected to other parts of Western Australia as well, particularly as new lines were constructed. A government built railway between Boyanup and Bunbury was completed in March 1897 and in 1906, construction of a line between Darkan and Bunbury saw the Bunbury network connected with the Great Southern. These lines enabled the transport of timber, coal and bulky agriculture products to Bunbury, as well as bringing job opportunities and prosperity to the town and port. Bus services were introduced to Bunbury in the mid-1960s. On 25 May 1985, Bunbury Railway Station received train passengers for the last time. The train line was moved out of the city and a new terminal was built at Picton. Ownership of the railway station was transferred from Westrail (formerly Western Australian Government Railways) to the City of Bunbury and the building was converted into commercial premises, the Bunbury Tourist Bureau, the bus terminal and cafe. From the mid-1960s, the Tourist Bureau Chief, George Baxter, led an enthusiastic band of volunteers that restored, maintained and operated a collection of valuable steam engines and rolling stock for tourists and locals. In 1968, former mayor, E C Manea and Maurie William MLA were instrumental in staying the scrapping of two ‘H’ class locomotives which first operated in on the Boyanup line in 1888. The signalling equipment consisted of ground point indicators and masts carrying bracketed discs and lamps and lower quadrant, mechanical signals. The masts were originally Oregon, later replaced with jarrah. Some railway telephone poles of sawn timber, predating the change to steel in the 1940s, were still in use when the Yards closed. The Round House Locomotive Depot was designed by H A Creswell, Chief Engineer for Ways and Works in 1927 and was an impressive technical achievement for its day. As a fine building of the Functionalist tradition, with a fully glazed external wall, it was an important element in the townscape for many decades. As the name suggests, the building was multi-sided and was basically semi-circular in plan. Part of the Round House was relocated to the Boyanup Museum. The Goods Shed was attached to the old Bond Store and was an essential part of the Railway group. It was also dismantled when the railway relocated out of the city centre. The Goods Shed was built for the Harbour Trust to drawings signed by the Chief Engineer of Existing Lines, E E Light, in December 1910. Many components were taken to Boyanup Museum or the Picton Westrail Complex in 1985. These include two vintage tenders which operated on the line for many years – G233 G Class 2-6-0 (No 174) – Leschenault Lady built in 1898 by James Martin and CO of Gawler, South Australia, and G123 G Glass 4-6-0 Koombana Queen built in 1897 by Dubs in Glasgow. All that is left of the extensive railway complex at Bunbury is the Railway Station (B026).

Integrity/Authenticity

DEMOLISHED Only the 1904 Railway Station [B026] remains in situ in Bunbury.

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DEMOLISHEDMany components removed to Boyanup and to Picton Westrail Complex in 1985.

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Bunbury Entertainment Centre

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Bunbury Entertainmnet Centre, a face brick purpose building building has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons: the place has social significance as a key public building servicing the entertainment needs of the Bunbury area; the place has landmark qualities and contributes to the community's sense of place.

Physical Description

Bunbury Entertainment Centre is a face brick double volume building constructed in 1990. The walls are red face brick with cream brick feature banding and large areas of glass set back from a colonade looking front facade. The front facade is curved in plan form with brick paved steps leading up from a paved open forecourt area. There are metal framed shade screens to the upper levels of the front elevation. The roof is curved and clad with corrugated colourbond sheeting. There is a large Colorbond clad fly tower to the rear. Internally there is an 800 seat auditorium, dressing rooms, a rehearsal and green room, and offices.

History

Before the construction of the Bunbury Entertainment Centre, there had been debate in Bunbury for over 100 years about the need for a Town Hall. The Bunbury Regional Theatre Building Fund was officially launched on 23 May 1989. The cost of the entertainment centre had been estimated at $5.5 million and a strong regional community fundraising effort contributed to the building of the centre. The Centre was built on former railway land and has an unimpeded view over the inlet. Although there was a gala opening on 3 November 1990, another official opening took place several weeks later by HRH, Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh. There are strong ties between the building and the community through the volunteer group Friends of the Theatre, who provide support to the Centre’s management. The volunteers won a National Bank Community Link Funding Project Award, a national award, for their contribution. In the first nine years that the centre operated it suffered financial difficulties, losing more than $100,000 between 1993 and 1997. In 1999 the centre balanced its budget due to a 58% increase in performances. The centre’s 1999 annual marketing plan announced that there would be a change in focus from high-brow art to popular art to help overcome popular public perception that the centre was elitist and that there would be a wider range of entertainment for a bigger audience. Other recommendations from the report included staging film festivals, increasing sponsorship and boosting attendances by 15% to improve viability. It was also hoped that the centre would receive state government funding to change a warm-up and dance studio to a multi-purpose 150 seat theatre and the improve computer systems.

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High degree of integrity and authenticity.

Condition

Well maintained and in good condition

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