HOUSE, 16 STOKES STREET

Statement of Significance

House, 16 Stokes Street is a single storey timber and iron house dating from 1936. 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, 16 Stokes Street is a single storey timber framed and painted weatherboard and fibro clad house with a Zincalume hipped roof with side gablets. The roof extends onto the verandah. It is supported by timber posts with decorative timber brackets and a criss cross timber balustrade. There is central brick steps to the verandah. Walls are painted weatherboard to dado height and asbestos sheeting above. The façade is symmetrical with a central door flanked by windows (detail unknown due to security screens over, but do not appear to be the size and shape of original sashes).
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 7, and became number 16 when the whole street was renumbered in 1939.
Fremantle Rate Books show that Lot 28 of 38 is recorded as being part of a lot consisting of 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.
Rates were collected from a house on the lot by 1940, but Post Office Directories state that a new house was being built in 1936/37 which gives an accurate date of construction for the house. The owner was John Yench. In 1938 the house was occupied by Mrs Ivy Franke, followed by Frederick Jackman (1939-40), William G Mullens (1940-42) and Mrs S Raffaele (1942-49) when records cease. The many tenants suggest it was a rental property.
The 1947 aerial photograph (Landgate) shows the house at No 16 and houses either side. There is very little vegetation.
The 1950 sewerage map (No. 2190) shows a weatherboard and asbestos cottage with a central path to the full length front verandah and a verandah to the rear, with bathroom and wc at the south end of the verandah. There are two wells in the back yard.
Later aerial photos (Landgate) show that landscaping and vegetation have changed but the size of the house has remained the same. In 2013 a larger outbuilding was built in the south-east corner of the lot, replacing a smaller one that was built in the early 1980s.
This place was added to the Heritage List and the Municipal Heritage Inventory on 10 January 2018.

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