HOUSE, 24 DAVIES STREET

Statement of Significance

House, 24 Davies Street is a single storey timber and iron house dating from 1900. 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 a late example of the Victorian Georgian style of architecture.

Physical Description

House, 24 Davies Street is a single storey timber and zincalume constructed as a late Victorian Georgian style of architecture. The walls are timber framed and weatherboard clad. The hipped zincalume clad roof has two face brick chimneys with corbelling. The separate roof verandah is supported by chamfered timber posts. The central entrance door has a fanlight and is flanked by pairs of timber framed multi paned casement windows. There is a face brick wall with piers and metal infill.

History

Rates Book records a timber construction on Lot 27 of 59 in 1900. The first traceable resident is E. V. Wright (1906-c1920), Joseph McCracken (1925-1937) and John McIntosh (1940). In 1949 when post office directory records cease the occupant is L. G. McIntosh. The 1908 sewerage map (No. 87) shows an L-shaped weatherboard house with a verandah along the front and steps off a small back verandah to the yard, where there is a galvanised iron outbuilding, a fence dividing the yard in half, and another smaller outbuilding beyond. The 1948 aerial shows a square house suggesting some modifications had been made in the north-east corner. Later aerial photos (Landgate) show that in the late 1990s the roof was replaced (it was originally red) and in 2001 the rear of the house was rebuilt with a long extension.

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