HOUSE, 18 STOKES STREET

Statement of Significance

House, 18 Stokes Street is a single storey timber and iron house dating from 1935. Although it has undergone alterations, it contributes to the streetscape and the surrounding area. It is representative of the typical building stock and of working people’s living conditions within the residential areas of Fremantle. The place is significant as an example of Fremantle’s vernacular architecture.

Physical Description

House, 18 Stokes Street is single storey timber framed and weatherboard clad house with a Colourbond hipped roof. The walls are unpainted weatherboard to the front, and fibro cement sheeting to the sides. The roof has a tall red face brick chimney on the north side, and extends onto the verandah which is supported by chamfered timber posts and a simple balustrade. The verandah floor is timber. There are triple casement windows either side of the central front door (same as for No 20). A high rendered masonry wall with face brick piers obscures the house from the street. The street façade is dominated by solar panels on the roof. There are two storey weatherboard additions to the rear of the house, with gabled roofs just visible from the street. The following places form a significant group and contribute to the streetscape: 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21 & 23 Stokes Street.

History

In PO Directories, the house was originally number 5, and became number 18 when the whole street was renumbered in 1939. Fremantle Rate Books show that Lot 29 of 38 is recorded as part of a block with stables in 1930. In PO Directories, there was a John Jeffrey, trainer, listed in this location from 1916. He occupied Lots 28, 29 and Lot 3 of 30 until 1934. Fremantle Rate Books show that rates were collected from a house on the lot by 1940, but, Post Office Directories list the owner/occupier as H D Shenfield from 1935, which gives a more accurate date of construction of the house. Shenfield resided there until at least 1949 when directory records cease. The 1950 sewerage map (No. 2190) shows a square weatherboard house with a central path leading to the full length front verandah. There is a well kin the centre of the back yard and a large asbestos shed/garage that the rear of the lot, which protrudes over the lot’s boundary line into the lot to the east. (This lot has no house on it as at 1950.) Later aerial photos (Landgate) show that between 1995 and 1999 the roof was extended to the rear with a two-storey addition. Solar panels were added to the roof c2009. This place was added to the Heritage List and the Municipal Heritage Inventory on 10 January 2018.

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