HOUSE, 8 SWANBOURNE STREET

Statement of Significance

The place is a good example of a stone residence in the Victorian Georgian style, representing the expansion of Fremantle in the gold boom period of 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

Single storey stone and brick quoining to window and door openings house with a Colorbond hipped roof. The roof has two brick chimneys with corbelling and the slightly bull nosed verandah returns down both sides and is supported by chamfered timber posts between a cast metal frieze.

History

A house was erected on the lot in 1898 for John and Martha Blinco. John Blinco was a prominent Fremantle citizen and chief warden. (History Files, Fremantle Local History Collection)

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