Barrack Street

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View south down Barrack Street, from the corner of Murray Street.

Barrack Street is one of two major cross-streets in the Perth central business district. Together with St Georges Terrace, Wellington Street and William Street it defines the boundary of the main shopping precinct of the central city. Barrack Street commences at the Port of Perth, commonly known as the 'Barrack Street jetties', and the adjacent Barrack Square. Moving in an uphill direction away from the Swan River, it passes alongside the Supreme Court Gardens and the Stirling Gardens. Crossing St Georges Terrace, Barrack Street then passes alongside the heritage-listed State Treasury Building and the Perth Town Hall. Commercial buildings on the opposite side of the street give way to small retail businesses on both sides between Hay Street and Wellington Street. The section between Murray Street and Wellington Street was for many years quite run-down, with unkempt buildings and seedy businesses, but in the early 21st century this area was undergoing a degree of renewal. The street terminates at Wellington Street, continuing as Beaufort Street on and over an antique bridge which crosses the Perth-Midland railway line.