ARTILLERY DRILL HALL, FREMANTLE CONSERVATION PLAN Prepared for the National Trust of Australia (WA) December 2005 HERITAGE AND CONSERVATION PROFESSIONALS ARTILLERY DRILL HALL, FREMANTLE Prepared for the National Trust of Australia (WA) December 2005 HERITAGE AND CONSERVATION PROFESSIONALS 4/168 Hampden Road Nedlands WA 6009 Postal Address: PO Box 3036 Broadway Crawley WA 6009 Telephone: (08) 9386 4088 Facsimile: (08) 9386 4388 CONSULTANT TEAM HERITAGE AND CONSERVATION PROFESSIONALS Project Co-Ordinator Rosemary Rosario Heritage Architecture Rosemary Rosario Philip McAllister History Kristy Bizzaca Presentation and Photography Vanessa Collins ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The consultants would like to acknowledge the assistance and co-operation of the staff and representatives of the National Trust of Australia (WA), in particular Kelly Rippingale, and the staff of the ‘Fly By Night Musicians Club’, in the preparation of this report. COPYRIGHT Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study or research, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part of the information in this report may be stored in a retrieval system, reproduced, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the permission of the National Trust of Australia (WA) and Heritage and Conservation Professionals. Frontispiece Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle, Circa 1940s showing West Elevation Entrance Courtesy National Library Australia, B5281 TABLE OF CONTENTS INDEX EXECUTIVE SUMMARY .................................................................................................................. I INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................................. I HERITAGE LISTINGS......................................................................................................................................................... I STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE ..................................................................................................................................... I CONSERVATION POLICY ................................................................................................................................................II SCHEDULE OF CONSERVATION WORKS .................................................................................................................. IV 1.0 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................1 1.1 PREAMBLE ...............................................................................................................................................................1 1.2 HERITAGE LISTINGS..............................................................................................................................................1 1.3 PROJECT BRIEF .......................................................................................................................................................1 1.4 METHOD ...................................................................................................................................................................2 1.5 REPORT STRUCTURE.............................................................................................................................................3 1.6 DEFINITIONS ...........................................................................................................................................................4 1.7 LIMITATIONS..........................................................................................................................................................5 2.0 DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE...............................................................................................11 2.1 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................................11 2.2 CHRONOLOGY ......................................................................................................................................................11 2.3 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARTILLERY DRILL HALL, FREMANTLE ....................................20 2.4 COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE.................................................................................................................................40 3.0 SIGNIFICANCE........................................................................................................................67 3.1 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE........................................................................................................................67 3.2 ASSESSMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE ......................................................................................................................68 4.0 GENERAL CONSERVATION POLICIES ............................................................................75 4.1 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................................75 4.2 CONSERVATION OF ASSESSED SIGNIFICANCE ............................................................................................75 4.3 THE BURRA CHARTER ........................................................................................................................................76 4.4 STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS...........................................................................................................................78 4.5 ASSESSING FUTURE USE AND DEVELOPMENT............................................................................................80 4.6 IMPLEMENTATION...............................................................................................................................................81 5.0 ARTILLERY DRILL HALL, FREMANTLE – ASSESSMENT OF THE BUILT FABRIC87 5.1 SITE PLANNING ....................................................................................................................................................87 5.2 ARTILLERY DRILL HALL, FREMANTLE – GENERAL PLANNING ...................................................................88 5.3 ARTILLERY DRILL HALL, FREMANTLE – EXTERNAL FABRIC.......................................................................96 5.4 ARTILLERY DRILL HALL, FREMANTLE – INTERNAL FABRIC (BY AREA) .................................................101 5.5 ARTILLERY DRILL HALL, FREMANTLE – SUMMARY SCHEDULE OF CONSERVATION WORKS .........110 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES Fig 1 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle Location Plan.......................................................................... 7 Fig 2 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle Diagram showing area vested in the National Trust .............. 8 Fig 3 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle Site Plan - Extant Features and Dates of Construction .......... 9 Fig 4 Plan Showing the Convict Grant Fremantle .......................................................................... 49 Fig 5 Town Map of Fremantle 1877 (pre Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle)..................................... 50 Fig 6 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle Location Plan dated 7.11.1896............................................ 51 Fig 7 Town Map of Fremantle 1898 (showing Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle) ............................ 52 Fig 8 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle Location Plan dated 1908.................................................... 53 Fig 9 Town Map of Fremantle 1913 (showing Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle) ............................ 54 Fig 10 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle PWD WA 3345 Dwg No 1; April 1995 .............................. 55 Fig 11 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle PWD WA 3345 Dwg No 2; April 1995 .............................. 56 Fig 12 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle PWD WA 3345 Dwg No 3; April 1995 .............................. 57 Fig 13 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle PWD WA 3345 Dwg No 4; April 1995 .............................. 58 Fig 14 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle Dwg No 52a;........................................................................ 59 Fig 15 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle Dwg No 52b; ....................................................................... 60 Fig 16 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle Dwg No 52f;........................................................................ 61 Fig 17 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle Site Plan 1955...................................................................... 62 Fig 18 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle Additions and Alterations; 1940.......................................... 63 Fig 19 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle Additions and Alterations; 1940.......................................... 64 Fig 20 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle Additions and Alterations; 1940.......................................... 65 Fig 21 Location Plan Showing the Proposed Parry Street Extension ............................................... 66 Fig 22 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle Site Plan Showing Levels of Significance .......................... 73 Fig 23 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle – Key to External Photographs............................................. 83 Fig 24 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle – Key to Internal Photographs.............................................. 85 Fig 25 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle Site Plan Showing Conservation Recommendations ........... 91 Fig 26 Artillery Drill Hall, Fremantle Floor Plan Showing Conservation