HOUSE (DEMOLISHED), 14 RULE STREET

Parent Place or Precinct

22385 North Fremantle Precinct

Physical Description

DEMOLISHED. Retained on MHI for historical information only.

History

Originally named Bay Road, Rule Street first appears on an 1873 survey diagram. The change of name was officially gazetted on 14 February 1969, although Bay Road was referred to as Rule Street or Rule Road as early as 1962. The street was named after Charles Rule, who was a North Fremantle councillor from 1948 to 1960 and a Fremantle councillor in 1961/62 and again from 1968 to 1973. Charles Rule was an active member of the North Fremantle community who service on the Fremantle Advisory Committee, was president of the Friendlies Societies Pharmacies for 21 years and was secretary of the North Fremantle Bowling Club. Rule Street is typified by workers cottages, where workers from Burfords Soap Factory, labourers and lumpers lived. In 1980 a $2 million restoration project converted the old soap factory into residential apartments, following the lead of “The Regency” at 47 Rule Street, where four up-market river-front units had been built two years earlier. House, 14 Rule Street was constructed in 1941 for owner Walter David Alfred Payne. Until this time, the land had been undeveloped. Walter Payne was the youngest son of Philip and Mary Ann Payne (nee Thomas), who had married at Gwalla in 1874 and settled in Fremantle in 1880. Walter and Rita Payne lived at 14 Rule Street until 1964, when the property was purchased by storeman, Herbert Bydder, and his wife, Anna Lambert. In 1968, title to the property passed to John Ter Beek, an industrial photographer. He and his wife Maria owned and occupied the place until 1978 and the house has had a number of owners since that time. This place had been included in the "North Fremantle Heritage Study", prepared by Craig Burton, for the City of Fremantle, June 1994. In 1996, the house was described as a typical Californian bungalow style house, asymmetrical in plan. The house had a hipped tiled roof, and flat porch roof with simple timber ornamentation of front gable of the projecting front room. The porch roof was supported by half columns on a brick half wall. The house had timber casement windows, a brick chimney and horizontal weatherboarding forming a simple dado, with flat asbestos cladding above. The house was built on stumps. The house was re-clad and re-roofed in 1994/95 and further renovations were carried out c. 2000. These works included substantial enlargement of the living area. The house was subsequently demolished, and in June 2005, a new house is under construction on the site.

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