DUPLEX, 17 MALCOLM STREET

Author

City of Fremantle

Place Number

23357

Location

17 Malcolm St Fremantle

Location Details

Local Government

Fremantle

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1888

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 early example of an attached pair of residences dating from the period of expansion of Fremantle in 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

Duplex 15-17 Malcolm Street is a single storey rendered attached pair with a terracotta tiled gabled roof. No 17 has six paned timber double hung sash windows extant.

History

Malcolm Street was named for Sir Malcolm Fraser, the Commissioner of Lands and First Agent General for Western Australia in London (1892). Duplex 15-17 Malcolm Street. In 1886 this was a vacant allotment. In 1888 one cottage is erected on the lot for Thomas Howson, a carpenter. In 1890 there are three cottages on the lot owned by Thomas Howson.

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

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

Construction Materials

Type General Specific
Roof TILE Terracotta Tile
Wall RENDER Smooth

Historic Themes

General Specific
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY Settlements

Creation Date

11 Aug 2010

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

27 Feb 2020

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