HOUSE, 4 STOKES STREET

Statement of Significance

House, 4 Stokes Street is a single storey timber, fibro and iron house dating from 1938. It has aesthetic value for its contribution 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, 4 Stokes Street Single is a single storey timber framed house with weatherboard clad walls to dado height and fibro cement walls above. The roof is hipped corrugated iron with a half-timbered gable and extends over a verandah which is partly enclosed with fibro and glass. The projecting bay has a timber sash window. 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

Lot 22 of 38 is recorded as a vacant lot in 1930. Fremantle Rate Book records register rates being collected from a cottage on the lot by 1940. In PO Directories, the house was originally number 19, and became number 4 when the whole street was renumbered in 1939. It was first listed in 1938 and occupied by the owner Mr Horace V Lewis, which gives a reasonably accurate date of construction. Mr Lewis was still living at No. 4 when directory records cease in 1949. The 1947 aerial photograph (Landgate) and the 1950 sewerage map (No. 2190) show that the house was weatherboard and asbestos, with an asymmetrical façade. There is a projecting room on the south side, and a half-length verandah on the north side, accessed by a set of centrally located steps. The 1965 aerial photograph (Landgate) shows a variety of size and shaped outbuildings in the rear of the lot. This place was added to the Heritage List and the Municipal Heritage Inventory on 10 January 2018.

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