HOUSE, 5 MALCOLM STREET

Statement of Significance

The place is a good example of a limestone residence in the Victorian Italianate 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

Single storey limestone and brick quoining to corners and window and door openings to the walls of the house which has a zincalume hipped and decorative half timbered gabled roof.There are three rendered decorative chimneys and a bull nosed verandah which returns down the sides.

History

Malcolm Street was named for Sir Malcolm Fraser, the Commissioner of Lands and First Agent General for Western Australia in London (1892). In 1897 lot 907 was vacant and owned by Thomas Haley. In 1898 he erected a dwelling on the property which was occupied by Margaret Haley, a spinster. Thomas Haley was a cabinet maker, upholsterer and undertaker who operated from premises in High and Cantonment Streets. He was a Fremantle councillor (1885-1890) and a member of the volunteer fire brigade in 1885. A later owner and occupant was John Musk. Musk was a contractor, well sinker and boot maker. He worked at "Cardinya" and "Coralya" for Julius Brockman. He bought "Cleveland" in Gingin and the Gingin Hotel. Fred Selwyn Sumpton and his father established Sumpton and Son shipping, forwarding and customs agents in 1921. They carried the machinery for construction of the Canning Dam and heavy steel work for Kwinana. The firm’s trucks were garaged at 5 Malcolm Street. Mr F Sumpton was the President of South Fremantle Football Club in 1939, patron of the Maimed and Limbless Soldiers Association and patron and member of the East Fremantle Bowling Club.

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