HOUSE, 6 DAVIES STREET

Statement of Significance

House, 6 Davies Street is a single storey timber and tile house dating from 1900. While the place has undergone alteration, is 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 Davies Street is a single storey timber framed and weatherboard clad walls and a tile gabled roof and brick chimney with corbelling house. The verandah which is supported by timber posts has been semi-enclosed. Visibility is difficult due to fencing and the mature plantings fronting the house.

History

The Rates Book record a timber, concrete and tile construction in 1900 on Lot 37 of 59. Thomas Buckemara is the first traceable resident (from 1903), although it is possible that the house was originally occupied by Robert G Forsyth. The 1908 sewerage map (No. 87) shows a long narrow timber house with a verandah at the street front, an iron section at the back and some outbuildings in the yard. There is a further grouping of galvanised iron outbuildings along the back (east) boundary fence. F. R Webb is the resident in 1910, and then from c1925-c1935 Mrs Annie Webb is the main occupant. William Keenan is the occupant from c1940 until at least 1949 (when post office directory records cease). The 1947 aerial photograph (Landgate) shows the narrow house, which by 1953 has verandahs added along the street front and the whole north side. In 1973 a garage was added at the back of the house on the north side of the lot. Later aerial photos (Landgate) show that the house was extended to the rear (1980s).

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