HOUSE, 4 BARNETT STREET

Statement of Significance

House, 4 Barnett Street 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

House, 4 Barnett Street is a single storey tuck pointed stone house with tuck pointed brick quoining to the corners, window and door openings. There is a zincalume hipped roof and two rendered chimneys with corbelling.

History

Barnett Street is named after Henry Calvert Barnett whose first government appointment was in 1868. Barnett was Superintendent of the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum 1872 and Colonial Surgeon until 1895. He was also a Member of the first Medical Board, 1894.
House, 4 Barnett Street was erected in 1896 for Henry Calvert Barnett.

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