Hymus House

{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox building | name = Hymus House | image = File:Hymus House, East Rockingham, February 2020 02.jpg | image_size = | caption = Hymus House in February 2020 | pushpin_map = | pushpin_map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_mapsize = | pushpin_label = | pushpin_mark = | pushpin_relief = | former_names = | alternate_names = | architectural_style = [[Victorian architecture|Victorian bungalow style house]] | construction_start_date = 1895 | completion_date = | building_type = House | location = 303 [[Mandurah Road]], [[East Rockingham, Western Australia|East Rockingham]], [[Western Australia]] | embedded = | coordinates = {{coord|32|15|34|S|115|46|53|E|type:landmark_region:AU|name=Hymus House|display=inline, title}} {{Infobox designation list | embed = yes | designation1 = State Register of Heritage Places | designation1_offname = Hymus House and Outbuildings | designation1_type = State Registered Place | designation1_criteria = | designation1_date = 17 February 2006 | delisted1_date = | designation1_partof = | designation1_number = {{SRHP|2320}} }} }} '''Hymus House''' is a [[State Register of Heritage Places]]-listed [[Victorian architecture|Victorian bungalow style house]] in [[East Rockingham, Western Australia]].

The building is part of the East Rockingham Heritage Precinct, which also includes other [[State Register of Heritage Places]], such as the [[Chesterfield Inn (Western Australia)|Chesterfield Inn]], [[Day Cottage]] and the [[Bell Cottage ruin]].

==History== The Hymus family were among the first settlers in [[East Rockingham, Western Australia|East Rockingham]] in the 1850s. Daniel Hymus (1835–1920) and his wife Fanny (née Bell) (1848–1913) were involved in the establishment and running of the [[Rockingham Hotel (Western Australia)|Rockingham Hotel]], then named the Port Hotel. The couple purchased the land on which Hymus House now stands in 1878 and lived in an earlier building at the site.<ref name="House">{{cite web |url=http://inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au/Public/Inventory/Details/81c8754e-24b3-4c52-aed8-7cdae25e951f|title=Hymus House (Place Number 02320) |author= |date= |website=inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au|publisher=[[State Register of Heritage Places]] |access-date=24 May 2020 |quote=}}</ref>

The current house was built in 1895 by their son Daniel (1876–1932) and the property stayed in the family until 1935, when it was sold to farmer Joseph Stokes, who converted it to a dairy.<ref name="House" />

The farmland around Hymus House was subdivided in 2007, under the condition that the building was to be restored. The house now functions as the landowning company’s administrative office.<ref name="House" />

==Heritage listing== The cottage is part of the East Rockingham Heritage Precinct, which also includes other [[State Register of Heritage Places]], like the [[Chesterfield Inn (Western Australia)|Chesterfield Inn]], [[Day Cottage]], [[Bell Cottage ruin]] and the Mead Homestead as well as heritage listed places on the municipal inventory like the East Rockingham Cemetery.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au/Public/Inventory/Details/5a7b747b-d3e9-4b9e-9027-7f84e44dcb2b|title=East Rockingham Heritage Precinct|author= |date= |website=inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au|publisher=[[State Register of Heritage Places]] |access-date=24 May 2020 |quote=}}</ref> Hymus House was added to the State Register of Heritage Places on 17 February 2006.<ref name="House" />

The listing is based on the fact that it has not been significantly altered since the 1930s and is demonstrative of the design of homesteads in rural Western Australia in the late 19th and early 20th century.<ref name="Assessment">{{cite web |url=http://inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au/Admin/api/file/6a143a33-0c6b-729b-bef9-e30c4bc41de5|title=Hymus House Assessment Documentation|author= |date= |website=inherit.stateheritage.wa.gov.au|publisher=[[State Register of Heritage Places]] |access-date=24 May 2020 |quote=}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://rockingham.wa.gov.au/forms-and-publications/events-culture-and-tourism/heritage/hymus-house-conservation-plan-1999 Hymus House Conservation Plan (1999)]

[[Category:State Register of Heritage Places in the City of Rockingham]] [[Category:East Rockingham, Western Australia]] [[Category:Victorian architecture in Western Australia]] [[Category:1895 establishments in Australia]]