HOUSE, 14 STOKES STREET

Statement of Significance

House, 14 Stokes Street is a single storey timber and iron house dating from 1919. 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, 14 Stokes Street is a single storey timber framed and painted weatherboard clad house with a Zincalume hipped roof. The bull nosed verandah is supported by square timber posts. There are iron lace frieze and brackets to the verandah roof and posts (not original). The verandah floor is painted concrete. The façade is symmetrical with a central door with timber panels and glazed side lights and a top light. The entry is flanked by unpainted timber double hung, multi pane windows (not original; would probably have been single pane sash windows). The sides of the house are unpainted weatherboard. The front boundary has a face brick and wrought iron fence.
There are two storey weatherboard additions to the rear of the house, and a gabled steel framed carport to the south side.
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 9, and became number 14 when the whole street was renumbered in 1939.
House, 14 Stokes Street on Lot 27 of 38 is recorded as vacant in 1910. Fremantle Rate Books show that rates were collected from a house on the lot by 1919 which gives a reasonably accurate date of construction. However, Post Office Directories do not list any residents there until 1938, when Mrs Jane Boyd is listed as the owner/occupier. She is still residing there in 1949 when PO directory records cease.
The 1947 aerial photograph (Landgate) shows a small house on the lot, and the 1950 sewerage map (No. 2190) notes it is weatherboard and iron. There is a full-length verandah along the front, and a smaller verandah at the rear. There are various outbuildings in the yard, a well, and a large galvanised iron shed at the very south east corner of the lot near the boundary fences.
Later aerial photos (Landgate) show that by 1974 the rear of the house has been extended. Around 1980 a large building was constructed in the rear of the house on the north side. A 2016 online real estate ad states this is an adjoining flat that is set up for rental income.
About 2004 the original house roof was redeveloped, and the house extended with a two storey weatherboard addition. A carport was built along the south side in 2013. From the street, however, the house appears to be a modest worker’s cottage as built in 1919.
This place was added to the Heritage List and the Municipal Heritage Inventory on 10 January 2018.

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