DUPLEX, 17 MALCOLM STREET

Statement of Significance

The place is an early example of an attached pair of residences dating from the period of expansion of Fremantle in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The place contributes to a substantially intact late nineteenth and early twentieth century streetscape close to the centre of Fremantle.

Physical Description

Duplex 15-17 Malcolm Street is a single storey rendered attached pair with a terracotta tiled gabled roof. No 17 has six paned timber double hung sash windows extant.

History

Malcolm Street was named for Sir Malcolm Fraser, the Commissioner of Lands and First Agent General for Western Australia in London (1892).
Duplex 15-17 Malcolm Street.
In 1886 this was a vacant allotment. In 1888 one cottage is erected on the lot for Thomas Howson, a carpenter. In 1890 there are three cottages on the lot owned by Thomas Howson.

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