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Section 1: Nationally Registered Residential Houses

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Section 1: Nationally Registered Residential Houses

Heritage: Australian Heritage Database

Section 2: State Heritage Register of Residential Federation sites

Condition: Good

Section 3: State and local government registered houses by City name

1. City of Albany

2. Town of Bassendean

3. City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder

4. City of Busselton

5. Town of Cottesloe

6. Town of East Fremantle

Department of the Environment

Heritage: Australian Heritage Database

Aldgate and Grounds, 7 Aldgate Pl, East Fremantle, WA

Earlsferry House and Grounds, 1A Nurstead Av, Bassendean

South Fremantle Post Office and Quarters (former)

	Name Address		Location	Status
1.	Aldgate and Grounds 7 Aldgate Pl Aldgate c 1896, is a fine example of Federation Queen Anne style of architecture common in Perth suburbs during the 1890s and 1900s		East Fremantle, WA, Australia	(Registered)
2.	Anzac Cottage 38 Kalgoorlie St Construction began on 12 February 1916 with approximately 4,000 people attending. Work began at 3.30am and most of the construction was completed on that day.		Mount Hawthorn, WA, Australia	(Registered)
4.	Belevedere 12 Rosendo St Built of limestone c 1893 in the Federation style, with contrasting painted quoins and trims to the walls and square tower.		Cottesloe, WA, Australia	(Registered)
5.	Dalkeith House 160 High St A two storey Federation Queen Anne building of brick walls and corrugated iron roof.		Fremantle, WA, Australia	(Registered)
6.	Dr Sawells House and Grounds (former) 121 Piesse St Dr Sawell's residence is a fine example of a Federation style dwelling. Having a spacious floor plan with surgery attached and on a large block in a prominent location, the place demonstrates the status and lifestyle of a doctor in a wealthy goldfields town		Boulder, WA, Australia	(Registered)
7.	Earlsferry House and Grounds 1A Nurstead Av Earlsferry is a two storey brick, iron and timber house in the Federation Queen Anne style. It is sited between the railway, the road and the river on a roughly triangular piece of land.		Bassendean, WA, Australia	(Indicative Place)
8.	Foothills School 18 Victoria St Representative of the large residences built during the gold boom period. It is a handsome example of the Federation style, generously and handsomely proportioned with exuberant and inventive detailing to both the verandahs and gable ends.		Guildford, WA, Australia	(Registered)
9.	House 22 Wellington St A significant house by the important architect F W Steere, which is a good example of the Federation Arts and Crafts style. The 1922 design also shows the influence of the, then, current Californian Bungalow style.		Bunbury, WA, Australia	(Registered)
10.	House 42 Tuart St The work of a prominent architect, E G Cohen, illustrating his influence on the introduction of English Arts and Crafts Architecture into Western Australia. The house is a good example of the Federation Arts and Crafts style and is significant for the contribution it makes to the Tuart Street group of houses.		Bunbury, WA, Australia	(Registered)
11.	Kirkman House 10 Murray St Kirkman House was designed by Hilson Beasley in 1908-09 and is a good example of the Federation Queen Anne style of architecture		Perth, WA, Australia	(Registered)
12.	Le Fanu House 2 Salvado St The place is of architectural excellence and has associations with prominent people. Formerly known as Banksia, it was constructed c 1893 as the private residence of Henry Diggins Holmes and his wife Marion. Large residence of dressed limestone, now roofed in asbestos. Gables on all four sides have Tudor details.		Cottesloe, WA, Australia	(Registered)
13.	Methodist Ladies College Original School Building 356 Stirling Hwy The design of the building was executed in the Federation Freestyle c 1890-1915, a style noted for asymmetric planning and massing and containing Classical elements, frequently distorted, incomplete, or placed in unusual context.		Claremont, WA, Australia	(Registered)
14.	Myrniong House 50 Beach Rd A significant house by the prominent architect E G Cohen, which is a good example of the local variant of the Federation Arts and Crafts style.		Bunbury, WA, Australia	(Registered)
15.	Nulsen Haven 458-464 Great Eastern Hwy Nulsen Haven is important as an example of a distinctive Federation Queen Anne style house enhanced by its setting in a large, formal garden.		Redcliffe, WA, Australia	(Registered)
16.	Railway House Narrogin (former) 6 Hale St A single storey brick and iron house in the Federation Bungalow style built as one of three identical homes for senior staff of the WAGR [Western Australian Government Railway]		Narrogin, WA, Australia	(Identified through State processes)
17.	South Fremantle Post Office and Quarters (former) 174 Hampton Rd The prominent architect George Temple-Poole designed this 1896 public building in his free interpretation of the English vernacular styles, which belong to the British Arts and Crafts movement.		Beaconsfield, WA, Australia	(Registered)
18.	St Georges House 235-239 St Georges Tce		Perth, WA, Australia	(Identified through State processes)
19.	The Palms 68 Piccadilly St A single-storey brick and iron building in the Federation Queen Anne style, situated in a picturesque garden setting		Kalgoorlie, WA, Australia	(Identified through State processes)
20.	The Terraces 63 Mount St An inner city residence, a rare example of a Federation Queen Anne bungalow.		West Perth, WA, Australia	(Registered)
21.	The Weld Club 3 Barrack St In the Queen Anne style with square windows, being plain red brick with cement facings.		Perth, WA, Australia	(Registered)
22.	Uralia 59 Gordon St A good example of the Queen Anne style and is one of a number of notable buildings in Gordon Street which reflect the wealth derived by Northam as a result of the 1890s gold rush.		Northam, WA, Australia	(Registered)
23.	Warwick 79 Solomon St Warwick (1898) is a good example of a Fremantle Federation Queen Ann villa dating from the gold boom years of the 1890s.		Fremantle, WA, Australia	(Registered)
24.	York Hospital (former) Brook St A two storey Federation Arts and Crafts style brick building with a shingled roof and window hoods.		York, WA, Australia	(Registered)

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Section 2: State Heritage Register of Residential Federation sites

63 Records edited for Residential only

	Place	View information about this place
1.	Mongup House, 27 Frederick St Albany Even with some changes to the built fabric of this place, Mongup has aesthetic, historic and representative heritage significance.	City of Albany	Classified by the National Trust Prominent position with high streetscape value Brick construction. Roof would originally have been corrugated iron Projecting wing with gabled roof
		Heritage Place No. 15479	Condition: Good
2.	Daylesford, 7 Daylesford Rd Bassendean (Cyril Jackson's House, Yadgawine) This is the gracious home built for Cyril Jackson who came to Western Australia in 1897 as the State’s first Director General of Education with a mission to reform the education system.	Heritage Council Town of Bassendean	Classified by the National TrustRegister of the National Estate Daylesford, Bassendean is an excellent and finely detailed example of the Federation Arts and Crafts style, both in its external and internal presentation. A lower storey of brickwork and an upper storey of weatherboard in a style unique among other houses built in the same period.
		State Registered Place	Heritage Place No. 127
3.	Halliday House (Bayswater Historical Society, Leighton) 114 King William St Bayswater	Heritage Council	Classified by the National Trust
	The Bayswater Historical Societyhas transformed Halliday House into a Heritage Centre and Museum.		Halliday House, a single storey Federation Queen Anne style brick and iron residence (1893) has cultural heritage significance for the following reasons: the place is one of the most substantial residences constructed in Bayswater in the early 1890
		State Registered Place	Heritage Place No. 3260
4.	Hill 60 (Tanunda, Part of St John of God Hospital) 76 Great Eastern Hwy Belmont Stylistically the building is a simple Federation Queen Anne style residence overlaid with elements of Inter-War Free Classical style. Important elements of this amalgamation include, dominant portico, battered limestone piers, extremely decorative leadlights, stuccoed gables and elaborate interior joinery and ceiling details.	Heritage Council City of Belmont	Hill 60 is single-storey house which was constructed for Robert and Elizabeth Bechtel in c.1902. Hill 60 is aesthetically significant as an early homestead in the Belmont area. Hill 60 Belmont WA
		State Registered Place	Heritage Place No. 4490
5.	Egoline Homestead, 439 Northam-Toodyay Rd Burlong A magnificent wisteria, approximately 80 years old, grows over the front balustrade.	Heritage Council Shire of Northam The main Egoline Homestead was built in 1917 of local stone, with brick quoining and a corrugated iron roof in a half gable shape. Features of this roof include brick chimneys ad timber finials.  Inside are pressed tin ceilings in all rooms, with polished wooden floor boards, open fireplaces and French doors from all rooms onto the verandahs.	Register of the National EstateClassified by the National Trust Egoline is one of the oldest properties in the area.Original cottage was built in 1851, is of brick with mud as mortar and is still quite solid.
			Heritage Place No. 3416
6.	Villa Carlotta (Ithaca, St Joseph's Convent and School (fmr)) 110 Adelaide St Busselton A single storey residence with tower in a garden setting.	Heritage Council City of Busselton Villa Carlotta is aesthetically significant as an almost vernacular 'builder’s' version of the Federation Queen Anne style	Register of the National EstateClassified by the National TrustVilla Carlotta is a single storey tuck pointed brick and stucco, aluminium tiled roof Federation Queen Anne style house
		State Registered Place	Heritage Place No. 386
7.	'Laxey Glen' 102 Broome St Cottesloe	Town of Cottesloe "Laxey Glen", Built 1903-10, "this large brick and iron residence is an imposing example of the "Federation Queen Anne" style. It is set in pleasant grounds complemented by nearby Norfolk Island pine trees.	Register of the National Estate Classified by the National Trust Its many rooms open onto wide verandahs via French doors, and large windows provide ocean views.
			Heritage Place No. 7497
8.	Belvedere (Belevedere, Belvediere) 12 Rosendo St Cottesloe	Heritage Council Town of Cottesloe "Belvediere" is a single storey limestone residence constructed in 1906 by wealthy mining investor J.J. Campbell who managed a tin mine in Queesland. Campbell built the house for his parents and siblings.	Register of the National Estate Classified by the National Trust"Belvediere" contributes visual interest to the streetscape because of its unusual tower which is a landmark in the area. It comprises an important part of the streetscape of South Cottesloe
		State Registered Place	Heritage Place No. 3452
9.	WA Bank & Quarters (fmr) 2 Waldeck St Dongara (West Australian Bank, Bank of WA) This former bank building is 'Federation Filigree' style, was built in 1894 for merchant Francis Pearse, owner and occupier of Pearse House [Place No. 25].	Shire of Irwin This large house has a hipped corrugated iron roof with a separate hip covering the main front room. A separate verandah roof is supported on timber posts with a decorative metal lacework frieze. The stone work is painted with rendered quoining to openings and corners. Window openings to the main front room and under the verandah are arched with double hung timber framed windows.	Register of the National Estate Classified by the National Trust A window to the west side features bars to the original strong room of the bank. The original stone corbelled chimneys have been removed and replaced with plain brick chimneys.
			Heritage Place No. 1238
10.	Woodside Hospital (Moore Family Residence, Woodside) 18 Dalgety St East Fremantle	Heritage Council Town of East Fremantle the location, distinctive size, design and presence of the place is highly valued by the community as a prominent former residence in the East Fremantle municipality; and, the building has well crafted, high quality components assembled in a conservative manner.	Woodside Hospital, was originally an imposing Federation Free Classical style single and two-storey brick and rendered town house, now converted into a maternity hospital
		State Registered Place	Heritage Place No. 792
11.	House & Norfolk Pine Trees, 3 Glyde Street East Fremantle	Town of East Fremantle Heritage Place No. 10222	Federation Gable Domestic Carpenter
12.	Woodlawn 20 Osborne Rd East Fremantle	Heritage Council Town of East Fremantle Woodlawn, a single storey residence, is constructed of stone and iron, in the Federation Queen Anne style set, in a lush garden landscape	This place is a fine and substantial Federation Queen Anne style bungalow that employs all the characteristic design devices of the style,
		State Registered Place	Heritage Place No. 805
13.	Knocknagow 24 Preston Point Rd East Fremantle	Heritage Council Town of East Fremantle the place is significant for its elevated and prominent siting, dramatic approach from the street and as a fine Federation Queen Anne style bungalow; with its tall belvedere, the place has a distinctive landmark quality;	Knocknagow, is a single storey rendered masonry construction and Zincalume custom orb roofed residence in the Federation Queen Anne bungalow style with a belvedere and associated single storey former stables,
		State Registered Place	Heritage Place No. 803
14.	HOLDSWORTH HOUSE 1 Bateman St Fremantle	City of Fremantle The precinct is rare as an intact group of Federation period residences.
			Heritage Place No. 4550
15.	HOUSE, 37 Ellen St Fremantle	City of Fremantle The place is a fine example of a stone residence in the Federation Filigree style, representing the expansion of Fremantle in the gold boom period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.	Heritage Place No. 866
16.	Samson House 61 & 63 Ellen St Fremantle	Heritage Council  City of Fremantle	Samson House is a detached house with a coach house and servants' quarters set in a large mature garden. The corrugated metal roof, brick and stone house has a belvedere in an Italianate style
		State Registered Place	Heritage Place No. 869
17.	Music School 21 Parry St Fremantle	City of Fremantle Two storey painted stone with brick quoining to the window openings of the building which has a hipped and gabled tiled (not original) roof and rendered chimney with corbelling intact.	The place is a good example of a two storey stone residence in the Federation Arts and Crafts style, representing the expansion of Fremantle in the gold boom period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
			Heritage Place No. 973
18.	Four Terrace Houses 19-25 Point St Fremantle	Other Listings	Heritage Place No. 986
20.	HOUSE, 196 South Tce Fremantle	City of Fremantle
			Heritage Place No. 1005
21.	HOUSE, 30 Suffolk St Fremantle	City of Fremantle	Heritage Place No. 1012
22.	Beachgrove (Beachgrove Homestead) 49 Ford Rd Geographe	Heritage Council City of Busselton	Beachgrove, a two-storey limestone and timber construction Federation Bungalow has cultural heritage significance as a fine example of an individually designed Federation Bungalow style building in a generous garden setting.
			Heritage Place No. 393
23.	House 10 Ethel St Guildford	City of Swan	Heritage Place No. 4087
24.	Turners House 16 Helena St Guildford	City of Swan	Large Federation style brick and iron house. The corrugated iron roof is half gabled (timber) with decorative panel. House has a small entry gable and a large decoratively corbelled chimney. A verandah extends around the north and west sides of the house. Heritage Place No. 4089
25.	Fairholme Group (Welbourne House; Almond Grove; Nathaniel Harper Hm; Fairholme) 41 Market St Guildford	Heritage Council	Fairholme Group, consisting of Fairholme, a homestead in the Federation Queen Anne style; Old Fairholme, a single storey brick structure with a corrugated iron roof reminiscent of the vernacular agrarian buildings that developed out of the Victorian Georgian style;
		State Registered Place	Heritage Place No. 2466
26.	Guppy's House (Rohais, Well's Rest Home, Foothills School) 18 Victoria St Guildford	Heritage Council City of Swan	Guppy’s House, comprises the original two-storey house constructed in 1897 in brick, with an iron roof in the Federation Queen Anne style, with later additions associated with the Foothills School 1982-2000
		State Registered Place	Heritage Place No. 2489
27.	Kia-Ora Residence 1 Waylen Street Guildford.jpg 1 Waylen St Guildford	City of Swan	Large single-storey Federation style villa c.1905. Building constructed in brick and tile. Has lost its original iron roof. Facade is symmetrical with two small decorative gables over a lowered pitch verandah. Verandah returns around southern side of house.
			Heritage Place No. 4107
29.	King George Hostel Albion St Katanning	Heritage Council Shire of Katanning	Classified by the National Trust Built as a hostel rather than a hotel, the King George Hostel demonstrates the form of a typical Australian corner hotel in the Federation Queen Anne style
		State Registered Place	Heritage Place No. 1339
32.	Moora Post Office & Quarters Cnr Padbury & Dandaragan Sts Moora	Heritage Council Shire of Moora	Register of the National Estate;Classified by the National Trust Moora Post Office and Quarters,  a single-storey stone and corrugated iron residence (1896) and adjoining post office (1912) in the Federation Free style
		State Registered Place	Heritage Place No. 1601
33.	Faversham (Ballindown) 2075 Jacoby St Mundaring	Heritage Council Shire of Mundaring The residence is a single storey house of random rubble stone walling, with brick quoins to the corners, window and door openings, and weatherboards. The roof is hipped and a verandah surrounds the whole.	Classified by the National TrustViewing of 1897 homestead and antique collection arranged.
		State Registered Place	Heritage Place No. 4546
34.	Turton 25 Harvest Rd North Fremantle	City of Fremantle High degree of integrity  High degree of authenticity with much original fabric remaining. Heritage Place No. 1036	Register of the National Estate Turton House, 25 Harvest Road, is a limestone,  brick and iron single storey house dating from the 1900s.  It is a fine example of the Federation Queen Anne style of architecture.
35.	Uralia (Rosalyn, St John of God Hospital) 59 Gordon St Northam	Heritage Council Shire of Northam Integrity: High degree  Authenticity: High degree	Classified by the National Trust; Register of the National Estate The single storey masonry residence features a distinctive double storey decorative turret tower topped by a belvedere, front gable, corner bay which rises through the roof as a parapet, and verandahs on four sides
		State Registered Place -Exceptional significance	Heritage Place No. 1876
36.	The Residency (The Magistrate's Residence (fmr), The Old Resident Magistrate's Home) 60 Habgood St Northam	Heritage Council Shire of Northam	The Residency is a fine example of the Queen Anne Federation style in Northam. It has historical significance owing to its association with the politics of local government in Northam in the 1900-1915 period.
		State Registered Place	Heritage Place No. 1880
38.	The Cliffe (Brisbane House (fmr)) 25 Bindaring Pde Peppermint Grove	Shire of Peppermint Grove	The Cliffe is a rare example of the use of a weatherboard in a substantial 'gentleman's' residence in Perth which has, intact, the subsidiary buildings of coachhouse, stables, summerhouse, servants cottages, and part of the original gardens. expansive single-storey timber residence (20 rooms). It has historical associations with the prominent McNeil and Brisbane families (owners) and with J. Talbot Hobbs (architect).
			Heritage Place No. 1924
40.	St Erney's Homestead Parsons Rd Quinninup	Heritage Council Shire of Manjimup	St Erney’s Homestead, comprises a three room homestead constructed for Thomas Harris Parsons in c. 1908-09 in the Federation Bungalow style, in pisé construction with ceilings of jarrah boards, with a corrugated iron roof, and a former Group Settlement house of timber construction with an iron roof added in 1945 State Registered Place Heritage Place No. 1510
41.	Chesterfield Inn (fmr) (Chesterfield House, Rockingham Arms (fmr)) Chesterfield Rd Rockingham	Heritage Council City of Rockingham ...a rundown shell of what was once a proud building, crumbling in some places, badly burnt in others, completely fenced off from, and inaccessible to, the public. [1]	Chesterfield Inn (fmr), is a substantial single storey building, built of rubble limestone and brick masonry walls, with a corrugated iron roof and mostly wooden floors and designed in a vernacular Queen Anne Revival style State Registered Place Heritage Place No. 2325
42.	South Fremantle Post Office (fmr) (Martha Hampton Clinic) 174 Hampton Rd South Fremantle	Heritage Council City of Fremantle	South Fremantle Post Office (fmr), comprising a two-storey rendered limestone and tiled roof Federation Arts & Crafts style building constructed in 1896, has cultural heritage significance  the place is a fine and well-resolved example of the Federation Arts and Crafts style, exhibiting a prominent gable roof form with decorative timber paneling and bargeboards, tall chimneys, large arches and an informal arrangement of windows; State Registered Place Heritage Place No. 1045
43.	Forrest Farmhouse (fmr) (Devenish House) 86 Mackie St Victoria Park	Town of Victoria Park	This fine house, by Architect Robert McMaster, was built in 1896 and sits well back from the street on a large treed block. It has tuck-pointed red brick walls, timber and iron filigree bullnose verandah, and a white painted corrugated iron roof. Heritage Place No. 3996
45.	Lady Novar Hostel (fmr) (Silver Chain Bush Nursing Post) Cnr Honour Av & Slocum St Wyalkatchem	Heritage Council Shire of Wyalkatchem	Lady Novar Hostel (fmr), Wyalkatchem, is a single storey residence, of timber construction with a tile roof, a late example of the Federation Bungalow design style State Registered Place Heritage Place No. 2757