DUPLEX, 43 EAST STREET

Author

City of Fremantle

Place Number

23338

Location

43 East St Fremantle

Location Details

Local Government

Fremantle

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1902, Constructed from 1903

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 3

Statement of Significance

The place is an example of a stone residence 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 brick façade and stone with brick quoining sides attached pair with a zincalume gabled roof which has decorative timberwork and chimneys with corbelling (no 43 has two chimneys & no 41 has one chimney).

History

East Street was the original eastern boundary of the Fremantle townsite. In 1902/03 two cottages were erected for John McMillan. The first occupants were William Watson, a chemist and Robert Bustorff, a commercial traveller.

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

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

Construction Materials

Type General Specific
Wall RENDER Smooth
Roof METAL Zincalume

Historic Themes

General Specific
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY Settlements

Creation Date

10 Aug 2010

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

22 Mar 2019

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