HOUSE, 20 STOKES STREET

Statement of Significance

House, 20 Stokes Street is a single storey timber, fibro and iron house dating from 1935. 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, 20 Stokes Street is a single storey timber framed house with painted weatherboard walls to dado height and fibro cement above. The roof is Zincalume, hipped with a small gable that has a window in. The roof has a tall brick chimney and extends onto the verandah. It has exposed rafters, and there are chamfered timber posts with curved timber brackets and a simple vertical balustrade. The verandah floor is timber, accessed by central timber steps. There are triple casement windows either side of the central front door (same as for No 18). The boundary fence is timber pickets with a scalloped design between posts.
The following places form a significant group and contribute to the streetscape: 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21 & 23 Stokes Street.

History

In PO Directories, the house was originally number 3, and became number 20 when the whole street was renumbered in 1939.
Lot 3 of 30 of 38 is recorded as part of a block with stables in 1930. In PO Directories, there was a John Jeffrey, trainer, listed in this location from 1916. He occupied Lots 28, 29 and Lot 3 of 30 until 1934.
Fremantle Rate Books show that rates were collected from a house on the lot by 1940 but, Post Office Directories list the owner/occupier as Albert E Jaques from 1935, which gives a more accurate date of construction of the house. Jaques resided there until at least 1949 when directory records cease.
The 1950 sewerage map (No. 2190) shows a weatherboard and asbestos house with a full length front verandah and a verandah along the rear of the house, which had a bathroom and wc at one end. Beyond the well in the rear yard was a large outbuilding.
On the adjacent lot to the south was a double gabled shed/garage at the end of a graded driveway. It is unclear whether these buildings relate to No. 20 or are perhaps part of the former stables. Later aerial photos (Landgate) show that these buildings were demolished and the house at No 22 was built c1980.
Later aerial photos (Landgate) show that between 1995 and 1999 it appears the original roof line was altered and possible a second story was added to the house. This is not visible from the street.
This place was added to the Heritage List and the Municipal Heritage Inventory on 10 January 2018.

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