HOUSE, 33 ALMA STREET

Statement of Significance

House, 33 Alma Street, is a typical rendered brick and iron single storey house dating from 1892. The place has aesthetic value for its contribution to the streetscape and the surrounding area. It is representative of the typical workers' houses in the Fremantle area. The place is simple example of the Victorian Georgian style of architecture.

Physical Description

33 Alma Street is a single storey, rendered brick and iron house with an asymmetrical facade designed as an example of the Victorian Georgian style of architecture. The walls are rendered brick. The roof is hipped and gabled and clad with corrugated iron. There is a rendered brick corbelled chimney. There is a projecting front room with a timber casement window shielded by a timber and iron roof awning, with simple decorative treatment to the awning beam and supports. The adjacent verandah extends beyond the front, continuing along the side of the house. The verandah roof is separate, and is supported on masonry and double timber posts. The masonry balustrade is rendered and capped. There is a low height rendered masonry wall to the front boundary line.

History

33 Alma Street was formerly 103 Alma Street. Numbering changed in 1934/35.
33 Alma Street was built for the owner Horace E Mofflin in 1892. Mofflin was variously described as a merchant, skin merchant and the manager of the firm G. E. Wills and Co. He owned the house until the 1920s and he or members of his family lived there until 1904. It was then occupied by a succession of tenants.
The 1907 sewerage plan of the site shows that the stone house had front and rear verandahs. In the rear of the lot was a well and several galvanised iron structures and a stone closet. The front boundary is fenced and a stone wall is evident on portion of the western boundary. The remainder of the lot is fenced.
The daughter of Horace Mofflin, Eileen Emma Mofflin married Frederick William Notley in 1924 and the couple moved into the house. Frederick Notley built a factory, from a reconstructed military building from the Blackboy Arm Camp, in the back yard of 33 Alma Street. From the factory he ran a soft furnishing business and supplied all the firms in Perth with tassels, cords, pyjama girdles and blind pulls etc. The Notleys moved from the cottage in the 1950s and settled in Hilton. Frederick Notley was subsequently elected as a Fremantle councillor from 1967 to 1975. He was involved with the establishment of day care facilities and a day care centre in Hilton was named after him.
The house was transferred to Camela Circella in 1952 and it was occupied by Luisa Di Rosa from 1952 to 1956.
In 1978 the roof was in poor condition. There was a low brick wall on the front boundary (not original).
In 1985, the City of Fremantle received an application to renovate the bathroom and this work was completed by 1987.

Integrity/Authenticity

High degree of integrity (original intent clear, current use compatible, high long term sustainability).
High degree of authenticity with much original fabric remaining.
(These statements based on street survey only).

Condition

Condition assessed as good (assessed from streetscape survey only).

Uses

Historic Themes

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