HOUSE, 47 EAST STREET

Author

z Fremantle ARCHIVED 201216

Place Number

20591

Location

47 East St Fremantle

Location Details

Local Government

Fremantle

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1898

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 a good example of a stone residence in the Victorian Georgian 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 stone with tuck pointed brick quoining to corners and window and door openings to the walls of the house which has a zincalume hipped roof and a chimney with corbelling extant.

History

East Street was the original eastern boundary of the Fremantle townsite. The house was built and occupied by George Dickens Wood, a plasterer, in 1898. A later owner and occupant was John Manuel, who arrived in WA from Victoria and settled in Boulder where he was connected with the mining industry for fifteen years. From 1911 he lived in Fremantle and was the proprietor of the Alaska Bus service that ran from Spearwood to Coogee. He was interested in social matters and was a keen member of Westralia Lodge UAOD.

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch General Specific
Original Use RESIDENTIAL Single storey residence
Present Use RESIDENTIAL Single storey residence

Architectural Styles

Style
Victorian Georgian

Construction Materials

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

Historic Themes

General Specific
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY Settlements

Creation Date

20 Jul 2011

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

22 Mar 2019

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