HOUSE, 8 STOKES STREET

Statement of Significance

House, 8 Stokes Street is a single storey timber and iron house dating from 1934. 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, 8 Stokes Street is a single storey timber framed and painted weatherboard clad house with a hipped iron roof. The roof extends onto the verandah which is supported by timber posts and has a timber balustrade. The side panels of the verandah have scalloped timber infill to the roof. The house is set off the ground on timber stumps, with centrally located limestone steps. There are pairs of sash windows either side of the central front door. Side windows have simple iron awnings over.
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 15, and became number 6 when the whole street was renumbered in 1939.
House, 8 Stokes Street is on Lot 24 of 38 which was recorded as a vacant lot in 1919. It is recorded as a woodyard in 1930. Fremantle Rate Books show that rates were collected from a house on the lot by 1940, but a resident Jens E. Ingvarson was first listed in PO Directories in 1934, which gives a reasonably accurate date of construction of a house. When directory records ceased in 1949 the house was occupied by Mrs A. E. Inverson. [It could possibly be the same family, and the spelling of their surname has been anglicised, but more research is needed to confirm this.]
The 1947 aerial photograph (Landgate) and 1950 sewerage map (No. 2190) shows a square weatherboard house with a full length front verandah, and a smaller rear verandah. There were small outbuildings along the north boundary of the lot and a well beyond.
Later aerial photos (Landgate) show that the land to the south (Now 10 & 12 Stokes Street, and through to 9 & 11 Taylor Street) was vacant until at least 1953.
The roof was originally painted red. It was green in the 1995 aerial, and seems to have been replaced with Zincalume around 2006.
This place was added to the Heritage List and the Municipal Heritage Inventory on 10 January 2018.

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