HOUSE, 6 STOKES STREET

Statement of Significance

House, 6 Stokes Street is a single storey timber and iron house dating from 1918. 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, 6 Stokes Street is a single storey timber framed, weatherboard house with a corrugated iron hipped roof. The walls are painted, indented profile weatherboard. The separate verandah roof is supported by steel poles and the verandah is concrete with a wrought iron balustrade. There is a face brick chimney on the left side behind the hip with a terracotta pot. The façade is symmetrical with a central door with side lights from dado height, and a top light, and timber sash windows either side, that have decorative scalloped timber sills and side lights. There is a simple picket fence to the front boundary line.
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

House, 6 Stokes Street is on Lot 23 of 38 which was recorded as a vacant lot in 1910/11. Fremantle Rate Book records register rates being collected from a cottage on the lot by 1918/19 which gives a reasonably accurate date of construction. In PO Directories, the house was originally number 17, and became number 6 when the whole street was renumbered in 1939. It was first listed with a number in 1933 and occupied by John Humphries. When directory records ceased in 1949 the house was occupied by F Johnson.
The 1947 aerial photograph (Landgate) and 1950 sewerage map (No. 2190) shows a square weatherboard house with a full length front verandah, and small outbuildings and a well in the rear yard.
Aerial photos (Landgate) show that the roof was red painted cgi. In the late 1970s/early 1980s the house was extended to the rear, and was again redeveloped in 2004, but from the street the house appears to have a modest scale, as it was built in 1918.

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