DUPLEX, 31 MALCOLM STREET

Author

City of Fremantle

Place Number

21239

Location

31 Malcolm St Fremantle

Location Details

Local Government

Fremantle

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1888, Constructed from 1887

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type Status Date Documents
Heritage List YES 08 Mar 2007

Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

Type Status Date Documents
(no listings)

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type Status Date Grading/Management
Category
Municipal Inventory Adopted 18 Sep 2000 Level 2

Statement of Significance

The place is a good example of an attached pair of stone residences dating from the period of expansion of Fremantle in 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

Duplex 31-33 Malcolm Street is a single storey and basement level house built of limestone and brick quoining to corners and window and door openings to the walls and has a zincalume hipped roof. This place contains a limestone feature. This attached stone pair forms a group with Duplex 35-37 and House 39 Malcolm Street.

History

Malcolm Street was named for Sir Malcolm Fraser, the Commissioner of Lands and First Agent General for Western Australia in London (1892). Duplex 31-33 Malcolm Street. From the council rate records it would appear the house was built in 1887/88 for William Thorpe, a green grocer.

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch General Specific
Original Use RESIDENTIAL Conjoined residence
Present Use RESIDENTIAL Conjoined residence

Architectural Styles

Style
Victorian Georgian

Construction Materials

Type General Specific
Wall BRICK Common Brick
Wall STONE Limestone
Roof METAL Zincalume

Historic Themes

General Specific
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY Settlements

Creation Date

20 Jul 2011

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

27 Feb 2020

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