ARCHITECTURE
Inter-War Diagonal Plan Bungalow Porch House w Arts & Crafts Influences
No 12 Oakover Street is a single storey house constructed in brick and rendered brick house with a hipped and gable corrugated iron roof. It is a fine expression of the Inter-War Bungalow style. It is asymmetrically composed with a thrust gable bay and a part width return hip roofed verandah. The verandah is supported on Tuscan columns set over piers. A masonry balustrade spans between the piers. A gable roof is located over the north corner of the verandah. The gable bay features casement windows and a sunhood. There is a central door flanked by sidelights and another door. The walls are brick with render string courses. The roofscape features a tall brick chimney.
HISTORY
1935 Pillion Rider Injured. Robert Fraser (20), of Ainslie-road, North Fremantle, was admitted to the Fremantle Hospital last night, suffering from a bruised right shin and lacerations. About 7.30 o'clock he was riding on the pillion of a motor cycle driven by Stanley Hogan, of Thompson-road, South Fremantle, when it came into collision with a motor car driven by Frederick Price, of 12 Oakover-street, East Fremantle, in Victoria-avenue, near the North Fremantle Town Hall. The motor cycle overturned crushing Fraser’s leg beneath it. Both vehicles were slightly damaged. (reference)
1944 Death on September 6, at Fremantle, Frederick Ritchie Price, of 12 Oakover-street, East Fremantle; dearly beloved husband of Mary: loving father of Fred and Shirley: aged 42 years. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1933 - 1944: Price, Frederick R.
1945 - 1949: Price, Mrs. Mary
