Fremantle West End Heritage area
Buildings on High Street
General information
Town or cityFremantle
Official nameWest End, Fremantle
TypeState Registered Place
Designated18 July 2017
Reference no.25225

Fremantle West End Heritage area is a designated heritage precinct in Fremantle, Western Australia.[1]

The City of Fremantle nominated the area in 2014 for inclusion in the State Register of Heritage Places to the Heritage Council of Western Australia.[2] The establishment of the area was announced in 2016.[2][3][4][5][6] The area includes over 250 buildings and covers an area of approximately 20 hectares (49 acres) in the western end of Fremantle. The area is the largest ever addition to the state register.[3][7]

The boundary starts across from the Fremantle Railway Station, at the Phillimore and Market Streets intersection, runs along Market Street to Collie Street, along Marine Terrace to the railway line, and then north, past the intersection (off the Phillimore westernmost roundabout that crosses the railway line) around to the rear of Phillimore street properties, until the railway station.[8]

The area is characterized by the narrow streets, small blocks and building of a similar size and style. Most of the buildings were constructed in the mid to late nineteenth century and early twentieth century and are two to three storeys in height.[1]

It covers around half of the larger West End Conservation Area,[1][9] which was placed on the Register of National Estate in 1979.[5]

West End dates back to 1829, when it was selected as the site of the port town of Fremantle for the Swan River Colony.[5] John Septimus Roe surveyed the area in 1833, with the West End laid out in a grid pattern with High Street at the centre.[4]

Many of the buildings were constructed in the 1890s and 1900s, and include former banks, hotels, warehouses,[10] shipping companies and import-export businesses. The area is an almost intact port city business district with a variety of gold boom era buildings.[11]

In 1987 the America's Cup yacht race was held off Fremantle, initiating major restoration campaigns across the city.[4] A process of gentrification in the early 1990s was accelerated by the 1992 establishment of the University of Notre Dame Australia, which has restored and occupied many of the buildings in the West End.[12]

Hotels and pubs

Shipping offices and warehouses

Residential buildings

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "West End, Fremantle". InHerit. Heritage Council of Western Australia. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  2. 1 2 "West End, Fremantle - Entered in State Register". Heritage Council of Western Australia. 27 March 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  3. 1 2 "West End State Heritage Registration". City of Fremantle. 2017. Archived from the original on 8 May 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 Emma Wynne (22 January 2016). "Largest-ever heritage listing proposed for Fremantle's West End". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 Linda Cheng (2017). "Fremantle's West End becomes biggest precinct on WA heritage register". Architecture AU. Architecture Media Pty Ltd. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  6. ↑ Brad Pettitt (18 November 2016). "Freo's West End Largest Single Place to be Included in the State Heritage Register". Mayor Brad Pettitt's blog. Wordpress. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  7. ↑ Ken Acott (18 November 2016). "West End's heritage nod a boost for Freo tourism". The West Australian. Yahoo7. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  8. ↑ "HC Curtilage Map P25225-0 West End, Fremantle" (PDF). Government of Western Australia. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  9. ↑ "West End conservation area (as adopted in 2000)". Heritage Council of Western Australia. 31 December 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  10. ↑ "Huge slice of old Fremantle heritage listed". PerthNow. Seven West Media. 17 November 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  11. ↑ "Fremantle's West End heritage listed". Media Statements. Government of Western Australia. 17 November 2017. Archived from the original on 18 April 2017. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  12. ↑ "Fremantle's West End". Retrieved 17 April 2017.
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