HOUSE, 43 FORREST STREET

Parent Place or Precinct

25542 Workers' Homes Board and War Service Homes Precinct, Fremantle

Physical Description

House, 43 Forrest Street is a single storey masonry and iron house constructed in the Federation Bungalow style of Architecture. The walls are rendered brick. The roof has a small gabled timber vent and is hipped and corrugated iron clad. There is a brick and stucco corbelled chimney extant. Visibility is minimal due to the high rendered brick wall to the front boundary fronting the garden.

History

House, 43 Forrest Street is one of a row of ten houses (25-43 Forrest Street) built on the south side of Forrest Street between Wood and Montreal Streets between 1913 and 1915 by the Workers’ Home Board. Three houses at the west end of the street were demolished c1983 to make way for Stirling Highway, and one (No. 39) was demolished and rebuilt in c1975. Although some lots have been subdivided at the rear, and most houses have been extended and redeveloped, the remaining six appear from the street, to be as built in 1914. The house was first listed in Post Office Directories in 1914, with A. T. Stewart as the resident. He stayed there until the late 1930s. The house was originally number 136, and became number 43 when the whole street was renumbered in 1939. The 1915 sewerage map (No. 2068) shows the row of houses, with slight variations, but all made of weatherboard with half-length front verandahs, and some (37 and 29) with wrap around verandahs. All had a bathroom under the main roof; some also had the wash house (laundry) under the main roof. Others had a separate outbuilding for the laundry. Aerial photos (Landgate) show that between 1985 and 1995 the house was reroofed, the lot subdivided, and a new house erected at the rear of the lot (7 Montreal Street).

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