HOUSE, 87 HOLLAND STREET

Parent Place or Precinct

25542 Workers' Homes Board and War Service Homes Precinct, Fremantle

Physical Description

House, 87 Holland Street is a single storey masonry and iron house constructed as a simple variation of the Federation Bungalow style of Architecture. The walls are painted roughcast rendered brick and red face brick. The roof is hipped with exposed timber rafters and corrugated iron clad. A side entry porch sits under a separate hipped corrugated iron roof. The verandah is supported by timber posts. The front façade has a ridge gable with timber battening. The front façade has a simple timber framed awning over timber casement windows. The place has a face brick and painted picket front boundary fence.

History

This section of Holland Street was developed by the Workers’ Home Board in the 1930s. Part 2 of Lot 1070 was vacant land owned by the War Services Homes in 1925/26. Building plans for a brick and stone residence were approved on the 4 October 1927 for William Andrews. The builder was Duncan & Co. and the value of the house was £790. Andrews became the owner c. 1929 – 1931. The house was originally number 158, and became number 87 when the whole street was renumbered in 1937. William Andrews was still living in the house until at least 1949 (when post office directory records cease). Nos. 85 and 87 were built as a pair of War Service Homes, which are rare in Western Australia and few others have been identified. They demonstrate the type and style of houses constructed by the WHB for the Commonwealth’s War Service Homes Commission in the 1920s. Aerial photos show that between 1985 and 1995 the rear was redeveloped with a new roof, possibly extended. By 1999 the lot was subdivided and another house built at the rear (9A Montreal Street).

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