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Quartermaine Building
Heritage Council:
History:
Quartermaine’s Buildings, 3-5 Henry Street: In 1903 a warehouse was constructed on the lot built for William Balchin Ltd, replacing earlier buildings. In 1936 the building was the Fremantle Workers Social & Leisure Club [?], when additions were carried out by Ochiltree & Hargrave architects. It remained so into 1970s. In 1984, it was converted to commercial/residential use. Part of the warehouse was leased by Spare Parts Puppet Theatre until mid-1985. There was also a craft outlet on ground floor.
Currently (2002), residential-warehouse apartments.
This place contains a limestone feature according to "Heritage Report on: 19th century limestone walls and steps in Fremantle" prepared by Silvana Grassadonia, for the City of Fremantle, 1986.
Physical Description:
Two storey, number 3 Henry Street is a rendered, single face building which adjoins number 5 via the first floor and drive through entrance underneath. The building has a zero setback from the pavement. The ground floor has the entrance on the left side and has ashlar effect rendering, the first floor has ashlar effect quoining. There is a decorative parapet and a stucco gable over the first floor window.
Two storey, number 5 is a rendered building which adjoins number 3 via the first floor and drive through entrance underneath. The building has a zero setback from the pavement. There is a decorative parapet with stucco arched and keystone sash windows onto low engaged pilasters to the first floor. The ground floor has tall-engaged pilasters, a timber casement door entrance to the left and the drive through entrance at the right side.
Statement of Significance:
The place is of historic significance as an example of a commercial building in the Old Port City of Fremantle dating from the gold boom period in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The place is a fine, substantially intact, example of a Federation Warehouse style building that makes a significant contribution to the streetscape. The place is of social significance as evidenced by its classification by the National Trust.
Skip Watkins' photo of the Quartermaine building, with the northern end of the Workers Club to the left and a glimpse of the 1908 Fire Station in Phillimore Street in the background, across the vacant lot where Lodge's Castle Hotel used to stand until 1956 when the Fremantle Workers Club had it demolished. Library photo #E000154.
References and Links
Heritage Council of WA (as above).
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 15 February, 2023 and hosted at freotopia.org/buildings/quartermaine.html (it was last updated on 11 February, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.