Meerilinga | State Heritage Grant

Dar Studio were engaged as Heritage Architect to submit a State Heritage Grant for a scope of conservation works at Meerilinga, West Perth – a Federation Queen Anne style brick and tile residence, originally built in 1897. To assist with financing, advantage was taken of the Heritage Council’s Heritage Grants Program that offers matched funding assistance to projects that conserve or celebrate State Registered Heritage Places.

The grant was successfully awarded in April 2022, with the main aim to stabilise the sub-floor structure and level the floor to one of the ground floor rooms that has experienced significant floor deflection and failure. As well as undertaking remediation works to address these issue, it was considered prudent to also undertake below ground investigation works to understand why the floor had experienced such defects so that further preventive measure could possibly be implemented in the future. In addition to this, minor works of internal plaster repairs were undertaken to a ground floor store room where the walls had experienced some historic water damage.

In detail the following conservation works were undertaken:

• Sub-floor works to ground floor office including:
  • Re-bedding of timber wall plates;
  • Levelling of timber floor;
  • New timber stumps with footings;
  • Termite treatment: and
  • Re-building / re-pointing of brickwork piers
• Underground investigation to external areas of building to assess condition and functionality of downpipes and softening of soil.
• Internal plaster repairs and re-painting to ground floor store.