HOUSE, 2 DAVIES STREET

Author

City of Fremantle

Place Number

22951

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Location

2 Davies St Beaconsfield

Location Details

Local Government

Fremantle

Region

Metropolitan

Construction Date

Constructed from 1903

Demolition Year

N/A

Statutory Heritage Listings

Type	Status	Date	Documents	More information
(no listings)

Heritage Council Decisions and Deliberations

Type	Status	Date	Documents
(no listings)

Other Heritage Listings and Surveys

Type	Status	Date	Grading/Management		More information
Type	Status	Date	Category	Description	More information
Municipal Inventory	Adopted		Historical Record Only	Historical Record Only The City of Fremantle has identified this place as being of historical interest. The information is retained in the database purely for historical record keeping.

Physical Description

House, 2 Davies Street is a single storey timber and iron house constructed in the Victorian Georgian style of Architecture. The walls are timber framed and clad with timber weatherboards and fibre cement sheeting. The roof is hipped and clad with corrugated iron. The verandah is under a continuous corrugated iron roof. The asymmetrical front façade is blocked from view by a steel garden shed. There is a face brick chimney with chimney pot evident. The house is situated at street level.

History

The house is situated on Lot 39 of Cockburn Sound Location 59.
The land was vacant in 1902/03 and owned by James Morfitt. In the following rate period of 1903/04 a cottage was built and the owner/occupier was Thomas Edward Morfitt, a labourer. Thomas Morfitt still resided in and owned the residence in 1945. By 1949 the owners were George James Morfitt and Robert Arthur Morfitt. George and James Morfitt were the occupants.
The 1908 sewerage map (No. 87) shows a very small weatherboard cottage.
In November 1940, a weatherboard and asbestos addition was made to the north side of the cottage.
The 1947 aerial photograph (Landgate) shows that the house is now larger in footprint, and closer to the road, meaning it was also extended on the west side to more than double its original size.
Later aerial photos (Landgate) show that between 1985 and 1995 the house was reroofed.

Place Type

Individual Building or Group

Uses

Epoch	General	Specific
Original Use	RESIDENTIAL	Single storey residence
Present Use	RESIDENTIAL	Conjoined residence

Architectural Styles

Style
Victorian Georgian

Construction Materials

Type	General	Specific
Wall	TIMBER	Weatherboard
Wall	ASBESTOS	Fibrous Cement, flat
Roof	METAL	Corrugated Iron

Historic Themes

General	Specific
DEMOGRAPHIC SETTLEMENT & MOBILITY	Settlements

Creation Date

13 Dec 2006

Publish place record online (inHerit):

Approved

Last Update

22 Mar 2019

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