The State Register of Heritage Places is the

heritage register This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and man-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many ...

of historic sites in

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deemed significant at the state level by the Heritage Council of Western Australia.

History

In the 1970s, following its establishment of the

National Trust of Western Australia The National Trust of Western Australia, officially the National Trust of Australia (W.A.), is a statutory authority that delivers heritage services, including conservation and interpretation, on behalf of the Western Australian government and co ...

, the National Trust created a set of classified properties, and following legislation requiring inventories, Local Government authorities in Western Australia produced a subsequent set of Municipal Inventories, which then resulted in items then being included in the state register. As a result most register records include dates and details from the three different processes. In some cases authorities other than councils had governance over localities such as ''Redevelopment'' authorities, and they also provided Heritage Inventories in that stage of the process. WilliamStPerthMitchellsBuildings07 gobeirne

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Registration was not always a successful protection. The Mitchells Building on Wellington Street was State heritage listed in 2004 but demolished in 2005, with only the facade preserved at another location.

Listings

Places listed on the register include buildings, structures, gardens, cemeteries, memorials, landscapes and archaeological sites. Inherit, the online list of heritage places in Western Australia, contains information about cultural heritage places listed in the State Register of Heritage Places as well as local government inventories, other lists, the Australian Government's heritage list, and other non-government lists and surveys. The Heritage Council of Western Australia, through the Heritage Act 2018, maintains the State Register of Heritage Places, Protection orders and the Heritage agreement while Local governments maintain their Heritage lists and the

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the

National heritage list The Australian National Heritage List or National Heritage List (NHL) is a heritage register, a list of national heritage places deemed to be of outstanding heritage significance to Australia, established in 2003. The list includes natural and ...

. Additionally, Municipal Inventories are also part of the listings. As of 2020, the State Register of Heritage Places listed 2367 places, also this number includes sub-listings of individual buildings within heritage listed complexes. Approximately 1,300 places throughout Western Australia are on the State Register, while the database itself contains 25,000 State and local heritage places.

Criteria

The Heritage Council use criteria established in September 1991 to determine the cultural heritage significance of each place, as follows: # Aesthetic value # Historic value # Scientific value # Social value # Rarity # Representativeness # Condition # Integrity # Authenticity

Register and available information

Places on the register can be searched by their name, location, local government area or place number. Place number 00001, the former St Joseph's Convent in Albany details location (142-152 Aberdeen Street), former names (St Joseph's School for Young Ladies),

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( City of Albany),

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( Great Southern), construction date (from 1881 to 1978) and listings. For the St Joseph's Convent, these are State , National Trust and National Estate Register as well as the Municipal Inventory.

References

External links

inHerit portal
{{Heritage places of Western Australia