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The Plympton Hotel (built July 1897) at 59 Canning Highway on the corner of Hubble Street in the Plympton Ward of the Town of East Fremantle is now called the Tradewinds Hotel. There were major additions recently at the time the name was changed. It is currently owned by the Prendiville Group, which also owns the Norfolk Hotel and Pier 21.
Plympton is the southwest ward of the Town of East Fremantle, containing the Town Hall (1899) and former (originally Plympton) Post Office (1898). It was earliest area of development in East Fremantle: the Plympton Hotel was the venue for the first meeting of the East Fremantle Town Council on 14 August 1897.
The hotel was once known as Jack Sheedy's Plympton Hotel, when the publican was Jack Sheedy, the former well-known footballer and coach.
The building next door to the hotel, on the corner of Sewell St and Canning Highway may be Pearse's Hall. It is currently a liquor store in the Cellarbrations chain. Garry's note: "I hope someone will be able to confirm this one day. It is now a remarkably unattractive building. I wonder what it looked like when it was newly built. We'll probably never know."
Aesthetic, Historical, Social, Scientific & Representative Refer to the "Heritage report on: 19th century walls and steps in Fremantle" prepared by Silvana Grassadonia, for the Fremantle City Council, 1986.
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE No 59 Canning Highway is a two storey hotel building constructed in brick with an iron roof. The place has historic and aesthetic value for its contribution to Plympton's high concentration of worker’s cottages and associated buildings. It contributes to the local community’s sense of place.
The place is a minor landmark on Canning Highway. The place has considerable heritage value for its intrinsic aesthetic value as a Federation Free Classical commercial premises. It retains a moderate to high degree of authenticity and a high degree of integrity. The additional rooms have little significance and the awnings are intrusive.
AESTHETIC SIGNIFICANCE No 59 Canning Highway has exceptional aesthetic value as a fine Federation Free Classical style commercial building. It retains many of the characteristic features of a hotel of the type and period.
HISTORIC SIGNIFICANCE No 59 Canning Highway has some historic value. It was part of the suburban residential development associated with the expansion of East Fremantle during the Goldrush period of the 1880s and 1890s.
SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE N/A
SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE No 59 Canning Highway has some social value. It is associated with a significant area of worker’s cottages which contributes to the community's sense of place.
References
- ↑ State Heritage Office, place number 790.
Top two photos supplied by Tradewinds Hotel manager Stephen Wicks: many thanks!
Lee, Jack 1979, This is East Fremantle (The story of a town and its people), East Fremantle Town Council.
External links
- Official website
- pubsofwa, Allen Graham's Facebook page, from which the date of opening.
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 21 September, 2014 and hosted at freotopia.org/hotels/plympton.html (it was last updated on 29 November, 2023), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.