he heritage character of a street is often attributed to the aesthetic value of its built fabric. Mary Street, in the Perth suburb of Highgate, is a dense, tree-lined thoroughfare linking the green space of Hyde Park with the shopfronts of Beaufort Street. Its buildings are not uniform nor are they all intact. Here, local inflections appear ad hoc and across time. As homeowners Melinda and Philip had noticed, “there is both a familiarity and intrigue to the remnant stuff that co-exists with the original terrace and cottage housing stock.” The design of Melinda and Philip’s home, Brick House, is the result of careful recognition of, and clever responses to, a multitude of
