Architecture
Inter-War w Arts & Crafts Influences
No 119 Petra Street is a single storey house constructed in brick and rendered brick with a hipped and gable tiled roof. It is an expression of the Inter-War Porch style. The front elevation is asymmetrically composed with a thrust gable bay and a part width skillion roofed porch. The porch is supported on timber posts set over masonry piers. The half-timbered gable bay features a set of casement windows under a tiled awning. There is a central door and hopper light flanked by a set of casement windows. An addition to the south replicates the style of the original residence. On the front facade the lower walls are face brick and the upper walls rendered. The roofscape features a rendered chimney.
History
1930 Swift Car single seater, good order and condition, take 3½ h.p. inclined engine, B.S.A., part payment. 119 Petra-st., East Fremantle. (reference)
1931 Birth on January 26, at Nurse Bathgate's Private Hospital, Staton-road, East Fremantle, to Mr. and Mrs. E. Baker, of Petra street, East Fremantle—a son (Brian David). Both well. (reference)
Residents
1931 - 1932: Baker, Elwin
1933 - 1935: Scott, Mrs. L.
1935 - 1938: Neil, William
1938 - 1949: Luff, Thomas G.
