House

Statement of Significance

Fine example of a Federation Bungalow, contributing to the streetscape. The interior of the building is not of cultural heritage significance.

Physical Description

Single storey expansive residence of tuckpointed face brick and rendered banding. The hipped Zincalume roof features two gables on the symmetrical frontage, and one on the side. The separate perimeter verandah is a hipped skillion supported by turned timber posts with decorative geometric timber valance and decorative brackets. Under the front gables are single facetted bay windows that flank the central front door. Two tall face brick chimneys have corbelled detail that is moulded to the clay pots on top. Landscaped garden setting.

History

The Swanbourne subdivisions west of Devon Road were new subdivisions put in place between c.1898 and 1903 prior to the Swanbourne railway station being built. The Swanbourne subdivision by A. Paterson & Co created Wood, Fraser, Derby and Deakin Streets and the western part of Otway Street. According to Post Office Directories Fraser Street was first recorded in 1900 as Frazer Street. The next listing in the Post office Directories was in 1902 as Fraser Street and the street was officially listed as Fraser Street thenceforth. The origin of the name is unknown. Number 1 was the first house built on Fraser Street. In 1902 there were two more residences in Fraser Street, all on the northern side and 1903 saw the first residences being constructed on the southern side of the street. By 1916, the end of the ‘Consolidation’ period, there were 12 houses in Fraser Street, all brick apart from a weatherboard house and a house made of stone. Half of the historical streetscape development therefore occurred during the ‘Consolidation’ period with infilling occurring in the ‘Inter-War’ and ‘Post-War’ periods.

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