Lovegrove Avenue
Origins of Lovegrove - Doctor Lovegrove's Home, St Clairs Hospital, Bunbury Girls Grammar School (photos)Dr Lovegrove built a house on the site in the 1880s, which later became a girls' boarding house and then a private hospital - named St Clair's Hospital (See B088). This was demolished in the 1960s to make way for Bunbury Primary School (originally named St Clairs Primary School), a new school complex for the school which had been established in 1895. That school was originally named Bunbury Girls Grammar School.From the late 1880s, Mrs. Charles Rose occupied this residence, where she conducted a private school for young ladies, known as Field Place, which would be taken over by the Church of England in 1910, to establish the Grammar School which was later closed in 1919. Subsequently, the former residence was converted to a maternity hospital, operated by Nurse Matti Browne, under the name of St. Clair’s Private Hospital.
Captain Stirling Gazebo
Cententary Pavilion was relocated to the site in 1995, the pavilion marks the site of the meeting between Governor Stirling and Lieutenant Henry St Pierre Bunbury on 21 December 1836, after Bunbury’s party crossed the Preston River at the Picton ford, they explored the area, which local Nyoongars called ‘Goomburrup’ and met up with Stirling on what was to become, many years later, the site of the Bunbury Primary School. The pavilion was built in 1936 in Centennial Gardens to commemorate the centenary of the naming of Bunbury. A plaque in the Centenary Gardens commemorates the proclamation of the townsite as Bunbury. The proclamation of the townsite occurred on 26 March 1841. The Governor announced that he would rename the settlement Port Leschenault in honour of Lieutenant Bunbury. Lieutenant Bunbury only visited the town once more – in 1837 – before leaving the colony to mark out a distinguished military career in India, Gibraltar and the Crimea.
Start of Tree Streets Suburb, Karri Street POI & Swamp Road
Discuss origins of Tree Streets AreaIn the 1890s, during the Western Australian gold boom period, the growth of the timber export trade from Bunbury transformed the economy of the town. Bunbury made rapid progress following the opening of the South-Western Railway, and the development of the harbour also paved the way to further development in the Western Australian gold boom period. Bunbury provided an important port for the developing timber industry. The fruit growing in the South-West began to expand rapidly, as the newly built railway provided transport to the wider markets of the city and thence to the gold fields. Bunbury spread beyond its original town boundary and evolved from a small town to include suburbs. Hough, Spencer, Clarke, Moore and others, further sub-divided the 10 acre lots they had purchased from Stirling’s Estates to the east of the town into residential lots, and this area became the favored location for the residences of the upper echelon in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.20 (Molyneux, Ian ‘Bunbury National Estate Survey’ 1978.)In 1893, Ephraim Mayo Clarke (commemorated in Clarke Street, Bunbury) orchardist and farmer of Roelands, planted a vineyard at Big Swamp, south of the Tree Street Area. In 1896, the Municipality of Bunbury was extended to include a large area south of the townsite, including the land held by Clarke.21 (ibid, p. 68 and p. 75.) This area, which includes Tree Streets Heritage Area, became known as South Bunbury22 (Rate Books, Bunbury, South Ward, 1921-22; and Wise's Post Office Directory 1926.), most of which was progressively developed as Bunbury grew in the twentieth century. In c. 1899-1900, W. B. Mitchell of Bunbury offered for sale a sub-division of 95 suburban building lots fronting Karri, Tuart and Jarrah streets (the names of tree species indigenous to the South-West) and Swamp Road (present day Beach Road), marketed as the new townsite of Stirling, so-named in commemoration of Stirling. The sub-division plan shows the Main Road (present day Spencer Street) leading to Bunbury and Perth, with Swamp Road (taking its name from Big Swamp) as the southern boundary of the sub-division. Stockley Road, named after Sarah Stockley, intersects the north-south streets.23 (Sub-division plan Townsite of Stirling, original held by Bunbury Historical Society, microfilm at Battye Library, TNO 009 480.)Priced from £10 to £15 each25 (?), the relatively cheap lots and ready availability of timber as a building material would enable many working class and lower middle class people to realise an ambition to become owner/occupiers in Tree Streets Area, in which most of the pre-World War Two residences would be of timber construction. The sub-division plan also shows the un-divided Lots in the immediate vicinity: Lot 40 and 53 in the ownership of Dr. T. H. Lovegrove (later commemorated in Lovegrove Avenue); Lot 41 in the ownership of Miss Garvey (commemorated in Garvey Place); and Lot 42.26 In 1901, the Commonwealth Electoral provides evidence that at least 36 residences had been built in Tree Streets Heritage Area and Swamp Road. There were at least nine or 10 residences in Tuart Street; at least six in Karri Street; at least three in Jarrah Street; at least one in Stockley Road; and at least 17 in Swamp Road. The electors resident in Swamp Road included a gardener and a farmer (who were working the land to the south of the road), labourers, tradesmen, engine drivers, a blacksmith, a baker, a contractor, an inspector, an examiner, and a fuel man. Residents in Karri, Tuart and Jarrah streets, and Stockley Road, included seven labourers, two firemen, two contractors, a carpenter, a benchman, a timber hewer, a painter, a compositor, a saddler, a bootmaker, a tailor, a watchman and a nurse. The latter was the only woman recorded with an occupation other than home duties, domestic service or as a widow28, indicative of women’s role in society at large at this period. The 1901 Electoral Roll indicates the predominantly working class nature of the area, which would continue through much of the first half of the twentieth century. Much of the residential development in the Tree Streets Area dates from the early twentieth century, a period of rapid expansion and development at Bunbury, following the opening of the Great Southern Railway (1893), and the period in which the harbour was developed and Bunbury became a popular holiday destination in the wake of the Western Australian gold boom. The Tree Streets Area retains many of the qualities and characteristics that were evident by c.1920, by which date it was a well established, largely working class suburb of Bunbury. Most residences were modest, single storey dwellings, of timber construction as this material was readily available and considerably cheaper than brick or stone, which fulfilled their owner/occupiers ambitions to own their own home. Much of the built fabric in the Tree Streets Area dates from the period 1900-18 and the inter-war period, and has aesthetic and historic significance. The cohesion of the Tree Streets Area is embodied in the wide street verges, substantial set back of the dwellings, the cohesive nature of the design styles and building materials (with timber construction predominating), with established and well maintained front and rear gardens for the most part, and mostly low level fencing or no fencing at the front boundaries providing an open aspect to the streets in most instances.Not all properties conform to the pattern, some are altered and some are later or new developments. On the other hand some are outstanding examples of timber construction houses from the first half of the twentieth century, while many others are simple and modest architectural expressions of the period. Description of the main physical elements in the area: Briefly, the main physical characteristics of the area include:-An early twentieth century sub-division pattern characterised by: a modified grid road pattern to the old large lot boundaries, the location of Big Swamp to the south, and the undulating topography, with the dominant pattern being streets oriented on the north-south axis, and most lots facing onto the dominant north-south frontages; variable topography with high ground to the north sloping down from Sampson Street in the north to Stockley Road in a steep decline, then a gentle decline to Beach Road; block patterns that are mostly oriented in the east-west direction; minimum serviceable road width roads; generous grassed verges with plantings of Cape Lilacs (Melia azedarach), and Peppermint Trees (Agonis flexuosa) giving rise to a distinctive public domain; a predominance of single storey single residential dwellings; reasonably uniform front setbacks; garages and carports not a prominent feature; a predominance of driveways set to the side of houses; a narrow range of architectural styles and a high proportion of timber framed and clad houses; front gardens, whether developed or not are a significant element that characterises the pattern of development; and, a limited palette of front boundary treatments, generally comprising open gardens, timber picket fences, or hedging. A distinct pattern of housing development reflecting the mainly working class origins of the initial owners with a strong visual coherence characterised by: property lots of a near uniform size; predominantly modest dwellings of a similar size prior to additions and alterations in the late twentieth century; mainly dwellings developed over a period of forty years in a small range of Federation and Inter-War styles; a predominance of timber framed and timber clad houses with corrugated iron roofs, or part clad with timber and flat asbestos cement upper walls; and, a relatively small number of places that fall outside the Federation and Inter-War period and characteristic styles. Attractive and important mature tree plantings in the public domain, with some significant tree plantings on the lots, notwithstanding the heavy pollarding of trees under power lines 115 Beach Road Craigie Lea, 115 Beach Road, a single storey brick and iron house (now opthomolgists) 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 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. 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 c1897 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 1983.76 Stockley Road is a single storey timber and iron house designed in the Federation Bungalow style of architecture. The walls are timber framed and clad with timber weatherboards. The roof is hipped with gablets and clad with corrugated iron. The verandah wraps around the building and is under a broken back corrugated iron roof supported by slender timber posts. The date of construction of 76 Stockley Road has not been determined as no entry for the lot could be found in the available Bunbury Rate Books prior to 1931. It is thought that the house was built c.1910. In 1931, 76 Stockley Road was owned and occupied by Catherine Johnston. Catherine was still the owner in 1941, though at this time it was a rental property. Tenants included G H Zeplin and a person by the name of Johnstone. By 1951, Kathleen Johnstone was the owner and occupier of House, 76 Stockley Road. The land to the north of Stockley Road, at Lots 40 and 53, much of which was swamp land remained un-divided, through into the early 1920s.35 In the post-World War One period, T. D. Prosser acquired the ‘mostly swampy’ land between present day Lovegrove Avenue and Stockley Road, and filled it using sand from ’about midway up Stockley Road’.36 After it had settled, the land was sub-divided for sale as residential lots.37 By 1921-22, there were dwellings on at least six of these lots which fronted Stockley Road and more than 10 dwellings in Picton Crescent, whilst the northern portion of Tuart Street, Banksia, Palm and Wattle Streets remained largely vacant land.38 In the inter-war period, Lot 41 was also sub-divided. Named Garvey Place after Miss Garvey, the first residences were built there by the early 1940s.39
Cnr Swamp Road & Karri Street
115 Beach Road Craigie Lea, 115 Beach Road, a single storey brick and iron house (now opthomolgists) 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 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. 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 c1897 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.
99 Beach Road
Victorian Italinate period styleThe area was surveyed by W B Mitchell in 1896 and it is thought that 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, 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. 99 Beach Road was built in 1896, is a single storey, brick, rendered masonry and iron house with an asymmetrical facade designed as an example of the Victorian Italianate period 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.
Tuart Street intersection with Beach Road Looking at the Big Swamp
In 1962, a twenty year project plan was proposed create a landfill (rubbish dump) and to reclaim the Big Swamp wetlands for community use. The dumping of refuse closed in the 1970s and the ‘rubbish hill’ has since been rehabilitated to form a vantage point for the observation of wildlife. The complex was formed by artificially creating wetlands through the clearing of native vegetation and directing the run-off into a natural depression. Big Swamp was also the natural drainage outlet for Five Mile Brook, which is now diverted to flow along an open drainage channel and discharges directly into the Indian Ocean via floodgates. Provision is made for water to be diverted to Big Swamp when needed. A market garden had been established on the northern perimeter of Big Swamp by Chinese who sold their produce in local shops. Earlier land uses also included cattle grazing. In the late 1880s, a vineyard and orchard were established by E M Clarke and Dr O’Meehan on the edge of the swamp land. Their property was later owned and operated by the Gibson family, who lived at 68-70 Clarke Street. Their wine was stored in a substantial cellar built in the nearby limestone cave system. In 1981, a Bird Park was built in the south west corner of the Swamp. It was a joint venture between the City of Bunbury and the avicultural society. Over the years, strategic plantings and judicious management of the wetland environment has attracted a variety of wildlife and birds to the area. Big Swamp consists of recreational areas and a series of islands forming ecosystems which incorporate a number of natural habitats to support large populations of both flora and fauna.
Tuart Street Houses
40, 42, 44 & 52 Tuart Street & Eustace Cohen 40 Tuart Street - Lot 48, on which Lilydale is situated, was created in 1892, with the subdivision of approximately fifteen and a half acres (6.35ha) of Location 26 owned by Thomas Hayward and Ephraim Mayo Clarke. Both men were farmers and active in politics. Hayward was MLA for Bunbury from 1901 to 1904, and MLC for Wellington 1904-1911. Clarke was MLC for South Province from 1901 to 1921 and was the Mayor of Bunbury for six years. In 1894 John Bishop, a sawyer, purchased Lot 48 but did not build anything on the land. In 1911 Thomas Prosser Scott, a carter, and later a storeman, purchased the land. The following year he raised a mortgage of £250 to Thomas Smith and had a house built, which was known as “Lilydale.” The house was designed by architect Eustace Cohen and built by local contractor, J G Hough. Cohen and Hough often worked together in Bunbury, producing well-crafted housing using local timber products. 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. Scott lived in the property until 1929, after which time he rented it to a succession of tenants. In 1937, 40 Tuart Street was sold to local chemist and photographic supplier, George Cox. Cox also owned Lots 49 and 50 and was thought to have lived in a house at Lot 50. He had purchased these Lots in 1919 and when he purchased Lilydale he lodged an application for a further subdivision which was approved in 1939. This created three different sized lots out of Lots 48, 49 and 50 and reduced the size of Lilydale, now known as Lot 4, from 1012m2 to 678m2. From 1940, 40 Tuart Street was rented by Benjamin Walter Reading and his wife Winifred. Reading worked for the Western Australian Government Railways, as did his father Benjamin Thomas Reading. The Readings purchased the house in 1950 and raised a mortgage of £500 with the Mutual Starr Bowkett Society. This was discharged in 1957. Winnifred died in 1986. Benjamin went into a nursing home in 1995 and two years later his daughters inherited the place. Janice Wansbrough bought out her sisters’ share of the property and planned to rent the place out. This history is based on the Documentary Evidence in Heritage Council of Western Australia, ‘Register of Heritage Places Below Threshold documentation: Lilydale’, prepared by Irene Sauman, 1998. 42 Tuart Street is a single storey timber and iron house constructed in the Federation Arts and Craft period style of architecture by the significant architect of the time, Eustace Gresley Cohen. The walls are timber framed and clad with timber weatherboards. The roof is hipped and clad with corrugated iron. The verandah is under a continuous corrugated iron roof supported by turned timber posts. The asymmetrical front façade has a timber window and the protruding front room features a bay window with decorative timber screen under the roof line which is matched to a small gable with finial in the middle of the house. There is a chimney evident. The house is slightly elevated from the street level. There is a limestone pillar and timber picket wall to the front boundary line. Previous descriptive notes state: An early 20th Century fine timber and iron house with highly modelled interiors evident in confident external forms [Molyneux:1978]. The building is one of a coherent group in the vicinity. Between c 1930 and c 1950, the house was owned and occupied by George Shafe Cox. Some timbers are reputed to have been salvaged from the demolition of a whaling station which previously existed on the shores of Koombana Bay. Bunbury Herald (WA : 1892 - 1919), Saturday 3 December 1910, page 7 "Mr. Eustace G. Cohen explained the other night the meaning of the A.W.A.I.A. which adorns his name. He has been fequently twitted of late about the alleged ugliness of a structure in course of erection in Victoria Street. As a matter of fact the wing which it to be added susequently will put quite a different complexion on the architecture of this building. Mr. Cohen said that A.W.A.I.A. stands for Architecture Which Awaits Imperative Additions."44 Tuart Street is a single storey, single room width timber and iron house constructed in the Federation Bungalow style of architecture. The walls are timber framed and clad with timber weatherboards. The roof is hipped and gabled and clad with corrugated iron. The gable end features timber screen and finial. The front door with side and fanlights is recessed with a small separate verandah with corrugated iron roof supported by timber brackets. The asymmetrical front façade has a timber double casement window with a small awning over it. There is a face brick chimney evident. The house is situated at street level. There is a timber picket fence to the front boundary line. he exact date of construction has not been determined as no entry could be found for the lot in the 1899 rate book and there are no rate books for the 1906 to 1920 period. In 1921, the lot was vacant land owned by Emily Boor. By 1931, a house has been built on the lot. It was owned and occupied by Hugh Thomas Shaw. It is thought that 44 Tuart Street was designed by architect Eustace Cohen and built by local contractor, J G Hough. By 1951 ownership had changed to Mrs Dorothy E Thomas who also occupied the premises. 52 Tuart Street 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 and rendered masonry. The roof is hipped and clad with corrugated iron. The verandah has a separate corrugated iron bullnose roof and is supported by timber posts with decorative timber brackets. The asymmetrical front façade has a bay window which is expressed in the main roof and verandah roof. There is a rendered chimney with chimney pot evident. There is a brick pillar and timber picket fence to the front boundary line. The exact date of construction has not been determined as no entry for the lot could be found in the 1899 Rate Book and there are no rate books for the period 1906 to 1920. In 1921, House, 52 Tuart Street was owned and occupied by B Moriarty. One of the boys who lived in the house was Francis Michael Moriarty, who enlisted with the AIF during World War I. Francis died of wounds received in action on 29 August 1918 and his name is on the Bunbury War Memorial. When Aileen and Blue Mountford visited Francis’ grave in 1992/93, they placed some garden soil from the family home at 52 Tuart Street on the grave. (By 1923, Michael and Susanna Moriarty – Francis’ parents – were living in Armadale.) By 1931, ownership of House, 52 Tuart Street had passed to John W Buckman. John F W Hampel was the owner in 1941, at which time Alex McGibbon was the tenant. By 1951, Hampel was living in the house. 59 Tuart Street is a single storey, brick and iron house with a symmetrical facade designed as a simple example of the Federation Queen Anne style of architecture. The walls are face brick. The roof is hipped with double gables to the front elevation and clad with corrugated iron. The gable ends feature decorative timber screens. The side gable has an awning underneath it. The verandah has a separate corrugated iron roof, is supported by timber posts, and extends around the side of the house. There are several rendered corbelled chimneys with chimney pots evident. There is a timber picket fence to the front boundary line.The exact date of construction has not been determined as no entry for the lot could be found in the 1899 rate book. There are two entries in the 1931 rate book for the lot. One entry was for a house (presumably House, 59 Tuart Street) owned and occupied by Frederick Coles. The other entry was for vacant land owned by Ilina Banting. By 1941, the house was owned by John Bensted of Dardanup and leased by Fred Whitlock. At this time, the house was numbered 9 Tuart Street and there was a second house on the lot. No 7 which was owned and occupied by Ernest Standbury. In 1951, Stanbury still owned No 7 and Mrs Irene Washer King owned No 9 (59 Tuart Street).
76 Stockley Road & Development to the East
76 Stockley Road is a single storey timber and iron house designed in the Federation Bungalow style of architecture. The walls are timber framed and clad with timber weatherboards. The roof is hipped with gablets and clad with corrugated iron. The verandah wraps around the building and is under a broken back corrugated iron roof supported by slender timber posts. The date of construction of 76 Stockley Road has not been determined as no entry for the lot could be found in the available Bunbury Rate Books prior to 1931. It is thought that the house was built c.1910. In 1931, 76 Stockley Road was owned and occupied by Catherine Johnston. Catherine was still the owner in 1941, though at this time it was a rental property. Tenants included G H Zeplin and a person by the name of Johnstone. By 1951, Kathleen Johnstone was the owner and occupier of House, 76 Stockley Road. The land to the north of Stockley Road, at Lots 40 and 53, much of which was swamp land remained un-divided, through into the early 1920s.35 In the post-World War One period, T. D. Prosser acquired the ‘mostly swampy’ land between present day Lovegrove Avenue and Stockley Road, and filled it using sand from ’about midway up Stockley Road’.36 After it had settled, the land was sub-divided for sale as residential lots.37 By 1921-22, there were dwellings on at least six of these lots which fronted Stockley Road and more than 10 dwellings in Picton Crescent, whilst the northern portion of Tuart Street, Banksia, Palm and Wattle Streets remained largely vacant land.38 In the inter-war period, Lot 41 was also sub-divided. Named Garvey Place after Miss Garvey, the first residences were built there by the early 1940s.39
Picton Crescent & Jarrah Street Intersection
Picton Cresent and the significance of the street names in the pavingBy 1910, there had been a further sub-division to the west of Jarrah Street, comprising Banksia, Palm and Wattle streets, but there appears to have been very little development in those streets, with only one elector recorded at Palm Street in 1910. There was also sub-division to the north, with re-shaping of the northern portion of Jarrah Street to form present day Picton Crescent, where the first residences were built by 1910. There were changes to Lots74-76 and 77-79 fronting Jarrah St. in consequence. Changes were made also to some lots fronting southern portions of Karri, Tuart and Jarrah sts., and the adjoining lots fronting Beach Rd., with additional lots created with frontages to the former, as shown on a plan in 1912.29 Hence it is suggested that the proposed Tree Streets Area include Picton Crescent and the northern portion of Tuart Street. Closer to central Bunbury, Picton Crescent was favored by the middle class, in contrast to the predominance of working class people in Karri, Tuart and Jarrah streets at this period.30 In c. 1920, a photograph of Jarrah St. south of Stockley Road, shows dwellings on all the lots in Jarrah Street, with little development to the south of Beach Road, where market gardens and vineyards continued to be worked. At street no. 6 Jarrah Street, there is a mature Norfolk Island Pine (which remains in 2004, and is a significant tree) and two mature trees are growing in the nearby verge. Each residence is fenced at the boundaries.33 The photograph reveals a number of the significant characteristics of the Heritage Area were already evident by this date, in particular the wide street verges, substantial set back of the dwellings, the cohesive nature of design styles and building materials, front and rear gardens, with timber and/or cyclone wire fencing, low level at the front boundaries providing an open aspect to the street. These are among the characteristics valued by current residents.34 Paving Street NamesIn the 1950s, the Bunbury Council introduced an initiative designed as street signage at the each corner intersection in the town centre. It also extended south to the Tree Street area and up to the Highway Hotel. The work was carried out by Council employees and consisted of stylised street names of asphalt letters cast into concrete slabs which form part of the footpath. This technique may have been a response by Council engineering staff to address a need for more permanent street signage as the Bunbury townsite area expanded. "Lyndhurst" at 2 Jarrah Street, is a single storey timber and iron house constructed in the Federation Queen Anne style of Architecture. The walls are timber framed and clad with timber weatherboards. The roof is hipped and clad with corrugated iron. The verandah is under a separate corrugated iron bullnose roof supported by chamfered and turned timber posts with decorative timber brackets and frieze. There is a lean-to verandah on one side. The symmetrical front façade has a central front door with sidelights flanked on either side by timber framed double hung sash windows with sidelights and modern security screens fitted. There is a rendered chimney evident. The house is situated at street level. There is a timber picket fence to the front boundary line. Previous descriptive notes state: The interior featured pressed metal lined walls and ceilings with some lath and plaster. The date of construction of 2 Jarrah Street has not been determined as entries of the lot could not be found in the Bunbury Rate Books prior to 1921. It is thought that House, 2 Jarrah Street was constructed c. 1905. In 1921, 2 Jarrah Street was owned by a Mr Goldsmith. In that year, it was purchased by Charles Henry Tomkinson, a butcher. Mr Tomkinson was still the owner and occupant in 1951.
Jarrah Street Residences
6 & 11 Jarrah Street including Brick vs Timber Construction, etc11 Jarrah Street is a single storey timber and iron house constructed during WWI (c1915) it has elements of both the Federation Arts and Crafts and Federation Bungalow styles of Architecture. The walls are timber framed and clad with timber weatherboards and fibre cement sheeting. The roof is hipped and gabled and clad with corrugated iron. The gable ends have decorative timber features. A set of four casement windows are covered with an almost flat corrugated iron awning supported at each end by a timber strut. The verandah is under a separate corrugated iron roof supported by chamfered timber posts with decorative timber brackets and timber balustrade. A separate flat roof is located over the verandah. The asymmetrical front façade has a French style front door with casement windows to one side. There is another entrance door leading into a front sleep-out featuring fibre cement sheet walls with decorative timber features and coach style windows. There are two rendered chimneys with chimney pots evident. There is a timber picket fence to the front boundary line. It is thought that House, 2 Jarrah Street was constructed c. 1915 and may have been built by local contractors, Hough and Sons. In 1921, House, 11 Jarrah Street was owned and occupied by Frederick Donaldson, a foreman. At this time, the house was numbered 62 Jarrah Street. By 1941 ownership had changed to Edith Mary Donaldson.
16 Jarrah Street
16 Jarrah Street is a single storey, brick, rendered masonry and iron house with an asymmetrical facade designed as an example of the Federation Bungalow style of architecture. The walls are rendered masonry. The roof is hipped and gabled and clad with corrugated iron. The gable ends have decorative timber screens and finials. The verandah has a separate corrugated iron bullnose roof and is supported by chamfered timber posts with decorative iron brackets and frieze. The front door has sidelights flanked to one side by timber framed double hung sash windows. The protruding front room has two sets of timber framed double hung sash windows. There is a rendered chimney evident. There is a low rendered masonry retaining wall to the front boundary line.It is thought that 16 Jarrah Street was constructed c. 1905 In 1931, Blanche Sloan was listed as the owner and occupier of House, 16 Jarrah Street. She was still living there in 1951.
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54 Beach Road
54 Beach Road and Subdivision of larger Beach Road blocks54 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. 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.
Myrniong 50 Beach Road, 54 Beach Road, 44 William Street and Subdivision of larger Beach Road blocks
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.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. 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. 54 Beach Road54 Beach Road is a single storey timber and tiled house constructed as a late example of the Federation Bungalow period 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. 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. 44 William Street44 William Street was built c 1903, is a single storey weatherboard and iron house originally with an asymmetrical facade designed in the Federation Bungalow style of architecture. The walls are timber framed and clad with timber weatherboards. The roof is hipped with a small gable to the front and clad with corrugated iron. The verandah is under a broken back corrugated iron roof supported by square timber posts with decorative timber details and a simple timber frieze. The verandah originally wrapped around the sides of the building but has now been infilled by a garage to one side and a projecting front room to the other. The front facade has a central timber door with side and fanlights flanked on either side by timber framed double hung sash windows. There is a painted and face brick chimney evident and no fence to the front boundary line.
44 William Street
44 William Street and ...44 William Street was built c 1903, is a single storey weatherboard and iron house originally with an asymmetrical facade designed in the Federation Bungalow style of architecture. The walls are timber framed and clad with timber weatherboards. The roof is hipped with a small gable to the front and clad with corrugated iron. The verandah is under a broken back corrugated iron roof supported by square timber posts with decorative timber details and a simple timber frieze. The verandah originally wrapped around the sides of the building but has now been infilled by a garage to one side and a projecting front room to the other. The front facade has a central timber door with side and fanlights flanked on either side by timber framed double hung sash windows. There is a painted and face brick chimney evident and no fence to the front boundary line.
Wattle Street and Nature Reserve
Top of Stockley Road
Palm Street & Views to Big Swamp
View down Banksia Street
Subdivisions
Up Tuart Street
Three Houses for Three Children
Cross & Tuart Street Intersections
16 Tuart Street
16 Tuart StreetFrom 1937, retired school teacher John Blair, and his wife, Mary, made their permanent residence at 16 Tuart Street, named Brae Neuw (meaning Brand New).45 He served as Mayor of Bunbury (1939-43), and is commemorated in Blair Street, Bunbury.46 A photograph shows 16 Tuart Street during the Blairs’ residence.47 (Photograph 16 Tuart Street, n.d. Courtesy Bunbury Historical Society.)
