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Residence, 14 Henry Road is a significant example of the late Victorian Georgian period demonstrating settlement on the northern outskirts of the town that makes a contribution the historic townscape.

Physical Description

The single storey face stone residence has a relatively low pitched hipped roof. The front is symmetrical with the front door flanked by single double-hung sash windows. The surrounding veranda is under the main roof at break pitch. Except for the central front entry, the sides and each side front is enclosed with timber framed fibro-clad walls with a louvred window on each front section.

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Moderate/High

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House 44 Henry Road

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Good as at 2007

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Residence, 44 Henry Road presents a picturesque country setting on the northern outskirts of the town representing rural life and contributing to the historic townscape of York.

Physical Description

The single storey building is located some distance from the road in a picturesque farming location, obscured my mature plantings, including palms, in close proximity to the residence. The roof appears to be hipped and a high pitch that breaks pitch over the verandas that are supported by turned timber posts. Face brick is evident in a Colonial (Garden Wall) bond where there are 3 or 4 courses of stretchers bond to one row of headers. The chimneys are distinctive with rendered base and corbelling with face brick between.

History

In 1913, Mrs Maida Hick, having married a York businessman Thornton Hick in 1912, is recorded as owning the land (Lots 20 and 22). Mrs Hick ran a dairy cow herd, and met the Dr Leo Percy Weidenbach, the local vet after he and his wife took up a property near Burgess in 1921. Mrs Hick was recorded in the Divorce Courts as the adulteress in the divorce petition by Mrs Ruby Weidenbach in filing for the dissolution of her marriage to Leo Percy Weidenbach in December 1921.

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Integrity: High Authenticity: Moderate/High

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Residence, 45 Henry Road is a good representative example of one of the few Post World War Two Austerity architectural style residential developments in York, and likely the only architect design such residence of the period (Post war 1950s) in York. It is significant for the association with the Lodge family, and for its contribution to the historic townscape of York

Physical Description

The single storey residence addresses its corner location cranking across the elevated site maximising its outlook on both street frontages. The simple hipped roof form clad with clay tiles and the face-brick stretcher bond are characteristic the architectural style. The residence is partially obscured by mature plantings in the landscaped garden.

History

C. Lodge owned the property. Mrs CA Nicholson (nee Lodge) is the widow of Hal Nicholson who was the Convenor of the York archives until c.2000. Together, Mrs CA Nicholson and her sister Mrs D Casey were C. Lodge’s daughters who grew up in this residence.

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High

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Peppercorn Cottage

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Peppercorn Cottage, 68 Henry Road is significant as a fine representative example of a stone built Victorian Georgian residence that makes contribution to the historic townscape of York.

Physical Description

The modest scale resident is set close to the road with a low picket front boundary fence and timber arbour central to the front entry of the residence. Single storey with a simple hipped roof it has a separate skillion front veranda supported by square timber posts with decorative lace brackets that extend to form a narrow valance. The random coursed face stone evidences rendered window surrounds. The symmetrical frontage has a central front door flanked by single multi-paned windows. Tall corbelled brick chimneys are evident at each end of the hipped roof. The residence was damaged in 1968 earthquake and then restored.

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Integrity: High Authenticity: Moderate/high

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Fair/good

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Residence

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Residence, 38 Eleventh Road is a significant example of the late Victorian Georgian period demonstrating the settlement on the northern outskirts of town that makes a contribution the historic York townscape.

Physical Description

The immediate curtilage of the residence is the extent of the record of significance. A set of wide curved concrete steps is central on the front of the elevated residence. The single storey face brick residence has a hipped roof with gablets each end of the ridge. The front is symmetrical with the front door with side-lights and fanlight, flanked by single double-hung sash windows. The surrounding veranda is under the main roof. Part of one side is enclosed with timber framed fibro-clad walls. A ripple iron sheeted balustrade is fixed across the most of the front veranda.

History

The owner mentioned that property associations included Slater and Reg Mills.

Integrity/Authenticity

Moderate/High Degree Moderate/High Degree

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Fair/Good

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York Cemetery

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York Cemetery has considerable historic value as the burial place of many pioneering European settlers in York - the first inland town established in the Swan River Colony, and is the fourth oldest colonial cemetery in continuous use in Western Australia. It has aesthetic value for the range of designs, skills and materials evidenced in the collection of monuments, palisades, railings and funerary elements in the picturesque setting on the side of Mt Brown.

Physical Description

The York Cemetery was originally on an a six acre subdivision allocated in 1874 divided into Anglican (the southern third), and four other denominations that were allocated the other two thirds. York Cemetery has since been extended eastward, doubled in size with the newer eastern section being a little larger than the original allotment.

History

The site of St John’s Anglican Church and Cemetery served as a multi-denominational cemetery from 1842 until 1874. The York Cemetery was allocated in 1874 and divided into five denominations. In the 1930s, a new section of land was acquired to the east. The cemetery was redesigned with a slight realignment of the front boundary fence, some internal roads, a new entrance and the relocation of some graves. Some remediation of the water runoffs was undertaken. At a later stage, a toilet block and then a rotunda, dedicated in 1990, with niches to take cremation urns, were built and a lawn planted near the rotunda.

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High

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York Primary School

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02862 York Town Centre Precinct

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26586 Central York Heritage Area

Statement of Significance

A school building of architectural significance derived from the standardised approach to school buildings designed by the Government Architect in the 1890s. A building which through its social history is important to the historic content of York. The school began in 1898 as a simple classroom and developed into a large complex as the townsite flourished.

Physical Description

A large red brick building with corrugated iron roof and decorated gables. The railway line bounds the western edge of the school site.

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Gwambygine Farm and Pool

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Integrity: Fair Authenticity: Fair

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Fair

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Shire of York Administrative Office

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26586 Central York Heritage Area

Statement of Significance

Shire of York Administration office is significant in representing the civic management of the Shire of Yorks since 1995. It is a controversial architectural statement that demonstrates the progress of the historic town of York.

Physical Description

The street frontage is an expansive curved element with vertical openings equally spaced along its length forming a colonnade to the actual building behind that is a masonry construction with a glazed front wall and extensive curved glass wall along the west side.

History

In 1871, the York Road District and the Municipality of York were gazetted as two separate entities. On 1 July 1961, they became respectively the Shire of York and the Town of York under the Local Government Act 1960. The two entities merged on 15 March 1965 to become the Shire of York. In 1995 the Shire of York’s Administration offices were constructed adjacent to the iconic York Town Hall and on the other side the imposing Freemasons Lodge. The design was contemporary and caused some controversy at the time.

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High

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Good

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Masonic Hall

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02862 York Town Centre Precinct

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26586 Central York Heritage Area

Statement of Significance

York Masonic Lodge (fmr) is significant for its association with the Oddfellows (1887- 1891), and the York Masonic Lodge No. 5, established in 1866 and utilised the building from 1891 to 2018. It is an important historical memorial to the role of benevolent societies in rural Western Australia and it contributes to the community’s sense of place through its association with four generations of Freemasonry families in York. The impressive two-story rendered and face stone building it is a fine representative example of the application of the Victorian Academic Classical architectural style in a rural town, of which there are few remaining examples, and makes a considerable contribution to the historic aesthetic of York’s townscape.

Physical Description

The imposing two storey stone building has a full height frontage and parapet on the zero lot line. The remainder of the exterior is face stone. The render and stucco frontage is symmetrical with a central double entry flanked by single double-hung sash windows, all openings arched, and the first floor vertically aligned with the equally spaced windows and entry. The decorative cornice at the top is bracketed, supporting the decorative flat arched pediment that has a central floral decoration.

History

The building was commissioned by the Independent Order of Oddfellows of York and the foundation stoned was laid by Mrs J.R.M. Thompson on 18 May 1887. The first Freemason’s Lodge in York was founded in 1866 within the English constitution. When the Grand Lodge of Western Australia was established, York Masonic Lodge No. 5 West Australian Constitution (WAC). They have used the building since 1891 and owned it since 1926 until its sale in 2018. The Masonic Hall has served continuously for the entirety for the purpose for which it was built as Lodge Rooms and a public hall. As such, some four generations of York families have close links with the building. James William Wright (b.1854) educated at Kings College, London, came to Australia (SA) in 1874, and to WA in 1881 for a contract for the railway buildings between Guildford and Chidlow Wells. In 1884, he established his own practice, and in 1886, was joined by Thomas Walker Lloyd Powell (1864-1947). Wright was one of the Partners in Powell Wright and Cameron who designed the 1911 York Town Hall.

Integrity/Authenticity

Moderate

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Fair

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Infant Health Clinic (fmr)

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26586 Central York Heritage Area

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The Infant Health Clinic (fmr) represents an important institution established in the 1940s throughout regional Western Australia for the benefit of mothers and their children; a way of life no longer practiced. It contributes to the York townscape informing of the 1950s period of social and community development.

Physical Description

The single storey building is modest in scale and rectangular in form except for the truncated corner entry with the rendered block parapet. A diagonal concrete path leads to the truncated entry from the opening in the fence on the front boundary.

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Integrity: Moderate Authenticity: Moderate/high

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Fair

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Warehouse

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26586 Central York Heritage Area

Statement of Significance

The warehouse, 7 Joaquina Street is significant in representing the diversity of development in York, located in close proximity to the railway station and the main commercial street, it is a rare remaining building of its type within the central York area, and makes a contribution to the history and the historic townscape.

Physical Description

The single storey building has a double vehicular entry central on the zero-lot-lined frontage. The face brick work on the front of the warehouse has been painted. It evidences a Garden wall brick bond, also known as Colonial bond. Usually it was a preferred bonding pre-Federation as it was used mostly in single leaf brick construction. It is recognised by 3 or 4 courses of stretcher bond bricks to one course of header bricks, as evidenced on the front of the warehouse.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: Low/Moderate Authenticity: Moderate/High

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Fair

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Kingdom Hall

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Kingdom Hall represents the Jehovah’s Witness‘ in York and their place of worship. It informs of their presence in York.

Physical Description

Single storey with of residential scale and aesthetic, with face brick, rendered quoins, and feature gable on the hipped roof, and a gabled porch entry.

History

Jehovah’s Witness‘ place of worship.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: High Authenticity: High

Condition

Good

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Residence

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Residence, 16 Knotts Road, represents an early dwelling in the Victorian Georgian style, located at the southern end of Blandstown, that makes a contribution to the historic townscape of the Blandstown precinct

Physical Description

The single storey masonry residence has a low-pitched hipped roof that breaks pitch over a hipped skillion veranda supported by square timber posts.

History

After York was opened for selection in 1830, the first settlers, arrived in 1831 from the Swan River settlement with the task of establishing a Government Farm. Balladong Farm was settled in 1831 by William Heal, later H. Bland after whom Blandstown is named. Stephen Stanley Parker had arrived in the Colony with his parents in 1830. After marrying Elizabeth Sewell in 1844 he purchased Balladong Farm in 1848. During the 1850s, Parker developed the property into a very successful farm. The “village” now known as Blandstown, the oldest privately settled part of the York town, developed around Balladong Farm due to the influential presence, water supply, and the river crossing.

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Moderate/High

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Chinaman's Cottage

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Chinamans’ Cottage and Market Garden is significant for the association with the Chinese brothers Lee Lee Chong and Lee Wan Chong who established and worked the market garden on this site for over sixty years, representing a way of life no longer practiced that contributes to the history of York.

Physical Description

A single storey cottage with a pavilion gable roof break pitch along the front veranda with a two-storey addition. There is no obvious evidence of the market garden

History

In 1901, brothers Lee Lee Chong and his young brother Lee Chan Chong arrived in Western Australia and worked in market gardens in Osborne Park before moving to York a few years later. They lived in a shack on corner of Water Street and Avon Terrace for 3 years, and moved to corner of Bland and Ninth Ave before moving to the two-roomed cottage (in what is now called Lee Cres) where they tended their market garden sending produce to Perth and generously providing local residents. There was no electricity or plumbing in the cottage and very basic facilities, although the previous occupant had installed a septic tank toilet. They worked hard, played dominoes and gambled. They played for high stakes in a Domino Club in Perth where they regularly frequented. They were bankrupt in the 1950s and were unable to return to China (ot leave Australia) on one of their visits due to their debt to the Taxation Office. In 1974, the younger brother was in ill health and required extended care nursing. In 1975, the Lee brothers returned to China for good. At that time the eldest was 102, and the younger 95 years old. It was great news at the time; that they were accepted back into China, and was the subject of West Australian newspaper reporters. The Chung Wah Association organised a farewell for the brothers. In 1984 Ken Sue, President of Chung Wah Association visited Lee Lee at his home in a small village of Hung Kay, Toi Shan Island near Shanghai off the coast of Chekiang Province. The elder brother was in excellent health, although blind, partially deaf and in need of assistance to walk- he was 112 years old. Li Hong Shu (grandson) advised when Lee Lee had passed away on 19 April 1985.

Integrity/Authenticity

Low/Medium

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House 11 Lincoln Street

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Good as at 2007.

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Residence, 11 Lincoln Street is a good representative example of Victorian Georgian architectural style that is a part of the development on the east side of the Avon River, and in the proximity of Newcastle Street in particular. It makes a contribution to the historical townscape of York.

Physical Description

There is a minimal setback from the front boundary to the single storey residence. The simple hipped roof is separate from the skillion veranda roof supported by square timber posts across the front veranda. The rough brick walls have been painted. The front is symmetrical. Face brick corbelled chimneys. View obscured.

History

Rate books record Matthew Ryan, farmer as the owner of 3 corner lots in 1910 through to 1913.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: High Authenticity: Moderate/High

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Fair/good

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Suspension Bridge

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26586 Central York Heritage Area

Statement of Significance

York Swing Bridge represents a link across the Avon River since 1906 with many interventions over time until this reconstruction in 1989. It remains an important pedestrian link that complements the picturesque recreational area along the west bank of the Avon River along Lowe Street.

Physical Description

A suspension foot bridge with steel cables and timber decking spanning the Avon River between Low Street and Pool Street, linking the commercial centre of the town with the Holy Trinity Church.

History

The first suspension bridge was erected before the turn of the nineteenth century. It was located where the central bridge is now located. The existing bridge built in 1906 has collapsed on many occasions due to floods. On the west bank adjacent to the bridge is the site of the town swimming baths where in 1900 Council bylaws prohibited man and women swimming together, providing set times for each gender. The Bicentennial project funded a reconstructed new bridge in 1989, in place of the original that officially closed in October 1984 and was demolished in 1987.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: High Authenticity: High

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House 26 Macartney Street

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Residence, 26 Macartney Street is significant as a good representative example of a reverse tone Flemish bond brickwork of a Victorian Georgian architectural style residence that individually and together with identical residence at number 30, and the residence of the same period at no 28 Macartney Street, makes a contribution to the historic townscape of York.

Physical Description

The modest scale residence is set close to the road and elevated with a picket fence on front boundary. Single storey with a simple hipped roof and separate hipped skillion front veranda supported by square timber posts. The front wall is detailed in reverse tone Flemish bond brickwork that has been rendered to dado height. The symmetrical frontage has a central front door flanked by single multi-paned double-hung sash windows

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: High Authenticity: Moderate/High

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Good

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House, 28 Macartney Street

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Residence, 28 Macartney Street is significant as a good representative example the Victorian Georgian architectural style residence that individually and together with flanking identical residences at numbers 26, and 30 Macartney Street, makes a contribution to the historic townscape of York.

Physical Description

The modest scale residence is set close to the road and elevated with a random stone foundation evident and a curved set of concrete stairs up to the centre of the front veranda. The single storey building is symmetrical across the recessed front, with a protruding gable on the west side. The entire frontage is detailed in Flemish bond brickwork that has been painted. The hipped roof has a separate skillion roof over the front veranda, supported by slender round steel posts with metal verticals forming a balustrade across the front.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: High Authenticity: Moderate

Condition

Fair/good

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House, 30 Macartney Street

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Residence, 30 Macartney Street is a significant Victorian Georgian architectural style residence that demonstrates a relatively uncommon example of a reverse-tone (dichromatic) Flemish bond brickwork that contrasts the stretchers with the dark brick forming a distinctive pattern that differs from the usual dark header in the reverse-tone style. Individually and together with identical residence at number 26, and the residence of the same period at number 28 Macartney Street, number 30, makes a contribution to the historic townscape of York.

Physical Description

The modest scale residence is set close to the road with a picket fence on front boundary fence and a hedge behind. The residence is elevated with a central set of steps. Single storey with a simple hipped roof and separate hipped skillion perimeter veranda supported by slender round steel posts with lace brackets. The front wall is detailed in reverse-tone Flemish bond brickwork that has been rendered to dado height. The reverse-tone is of particular interest as the pattern has dark contrasting stretchers rather than the usual reverse tone that has dark-toned headers. The symmetrical frontage has a central front door flanked by single multi-paned double-hung sash windows.

Integrity/Authenticity

Integrity: Good Authenticity: Good

Condition

Good

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