ARCHITECTURE
Inter-War California Bungalow
No 12 Clayton Street is a single storey house constructed in brick and rendered brick with a hipped and gable corrugated iron roof. It is a fine expression of the Inter-War California Bungalow style. It is asymmetrically composed with a thrust gable bay and a gable roofed porch. The porch is supported on masonry piers. A masonry balustrade spans between the piers. The thrust bay features a window under a sunhood. There is a central door flanked by a window. Windows are double hung sashes flanked by sidelights. Lower walls are brick and upper walls are rendered. The roofscape features a rendered chimney.
HISTORY
1939 General News. When she slipped and fell at her home at 12 Clayton-street, East Fremantle, yesterday Mrs. H. Forbes (about 55) sustained a fracture of the left arm. A doctor was summoned and at 10 a.m. she was taken by a St. John ambulance to the Fremantle Hospital. (reference)
1943 Birth on October 2, Woodside Hospital, to Mr. and Mrs. R. G. McCaw, of East Fremantle—a daughter (lived 8 hours). Mother well. No visitors. (reference)
1943 Wanted urgently, House, East Fremantle or Bicton, up to $1000 cash. 12 Clayton-st., East Fremantle. (reference)
1943 A House urgently, East Fremantle, Bicton, Mosman, weatherboard, brick, cash. 12 Clayton-st., East Fremantle. (reference)
1944 Building Block, suitable asbestos house, East Fremantle, Melville. R. McCaw, 12 Clayton-st., East Fremantle. (reference)
1953 Furn. house for 3 mths., b. and t., all cons., £7 p.w. Apply 12 Clayton-st., East Fremantle. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1941 - 1944: Forbes, James
1945 - 1946: McCaw, Ronald G.
1947: Forbes, Arthur
1949: Pearce, Mrs.
