HOUSE, 14 CUREDALE STREET

Statement of Significance

House, 14 Curedale Street, is a single storey timber and iron house dating from 1904. It has aesthetic value for its contribution to the streetscape and the surrounding area. It is representative of the typical building stock and of working people’s living conditions within the residential areas of Fremantle. The place is significant as an example of Fremantle’s vernacular architecture.

Physical Description

House, 14 Curedale Street single storey timber framed and weatherboard clad walls and a Zincalume hipped roof house. The façade is symmetrical and the central entrance door has fanlight and sidelights and is flanked by timber framed double hung sash windows. The dropped verandah is supported by turned timber posts. There is a limestone fence with piers and metal infill to the front boundary.

History

The land on which Curedale Street and the Grosvenor Hospital are situated originally belonged to the Curedale family. George Curedale arrived in Fremantle as a convict on 1st January 1858. On 18 May 1881 George Curedale purchased 82 acres, about three kilometres from the centre of Fremantle, from Henry Maxwell Lefroy who had died two years previously. The property comprised four adjoining Cockburn Sound Location Lots and was located between the present Curedale Street, east to within 4.45 chains of Fifth Avenue and from South Street to Lefroy Street. Curedale developed the land as an orchard and vineyard. Having earned a living as ‘Fruiterer’ and then ‘Green-grocer’, George Curedale now described himself as ‘Vineyard Proprietor’ and there is evidence to show that he did import vines. The property was owned by the Curedales until 28 April 1887 when Lots 59, 60, 61 and 66 were transferred to George Alfred Davies (1846 – 1847) to clear George Curedale’s debts. George Curedale died of heart disease, on 15th August 1887. The adjoining Davies Street is named for the Davies family. Davies Street adjoins Curedale Street. The Rates Book records a cottage in 1904. The first occupant to c1920 was John A Chambers. Another long-term resident was Eric Cole (1937 to at least 1949). The 1908 sewerage map (No. 87) shows a weatherboard house with a full length front verandah and a half-length verandah a t the rea, with steps leading down to the back yard where there were two timber outbuildings; one on each side boundary fence. The house was originally number 28, and became number 14 when the whole street was renumbered in 1937. The 1947 aerial photograph (Landgate) shows a simple hipped roof house with a skillion to the rear. Later aerial photos (Landgate) show that c2008 the roof was modified and extended to the rear.

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