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Office and amenities building
Jack Kent, 1991:
EXISTING BUILDINGS ON VICTORIA QUAY
BUILDING NUMBER 16
OFFICE AND AMENITIES BUILDING
HISTORY
Plans for the window construction details of the new office and amenities building were drawn on 19 November, 1957. According to Mr Stan Limpus (retired Fremantle Port Authority employee) the building was completed in November, 1958.
Before the Port Authority Building was constructed in 1963/64, the office and amenities building was used by accounting staff (Mr Stan Limpus).
CONSTRUCTION
The building is simple in form, has two stories and is of timber frame construction. The external walls are clad in weatherboard up to first floor, and then in asbestos sheeting. The roof is a simple dual pitch roof covered in corrugated asbestos sheeting.
ASSESSMENT OF CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE
The aesthetic value of this building can be seen in terms of its contribution to the streetscape of Slip Street. It maintains a consistent frontage to the narrow street and has a similar scale to the other buildings fronting the street.
Its construction is representative of wharf architecture and the building is still used for wharf related activities, and as such contributes to the historical significance of Slip Street (and vice versa).
Inside the amenites building. Photo courtesy of Fremantle Ports (Facebook).
References and Links
Hutchison, David, Jack Kent, Agnieshka Kiera, Russell Kingdom, Larraine Stevens, Tanya Suba, 1991, Victoria Quay and its Architecture its History and Assessment of Cultural Significance, City of Fremantle; Part II: Jack Kent: 'Architectural evaluation of existing buldings and assessment of their cultural significance', 54 pp.
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 19 November, 2022 and hosted at freotopia.org/port/amenities.html (it was last updated on 22 October, 2023). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.