ARCHITECTURE
Inter-War Domestic Carpenter w Federation Influence
No 18 Windsor Road is a single storey house constructed in timber framing and weatherboard cladding with a ‘M’ format and gabled corrugated iron roof. It is asymmetrically composed with a thrust gable bay and a full width return bull-nosed roofed verandah. The verandah is supported on timber posts with brackets. The gable bay features a set of double hung sash windows. There is a central door and hopper light flanked by sidelights and sets of double hung sash windows. The barges are profiled in the style of cottage ornée decorative fretwork. The roofscape features a pair of rendered chimneys.
HISTORY
1909 Birth On December 24, at Windsor-road, East Fremantle, the wife of W. F. Taylor, of a son. (reference)
1922 Application Licenses. To the Resident Magistrate of the Magisterial District of Fremantle. I, David Gordon Taylor, now residing at Windsor-road, East Fremantle, do hereby apply for a general license under the Auctioneers Act, 1921… (reference)
1935 Death on May 30, at her residence, 18 Windsor-road, East Fremantle, Katie, dearly beloved wife of D. G. Taylor, and devoted mother of Gordon and Isla Taylor; aged 67 years. (reference)
1936 Collapsed on Golf Links. Mr. David Gordon Taylor, a member of the Royal Fremantle Golf Club, collapsed on the club's course yesterday afternoon. Medical aid was on hand, but an examination showed that life was extinct. (reference) The Friends of the late Mr. David Gordon Taylor, Land and Estate Agent, of Messrs. Learmonth, Duffy and Company, Fremantle, and of 18 Windsor-road, East Fremantle… (reference)
1936 Auction of David Gordon Taylor’s well-known ‘Jarrah’ Residence, No 18 Windsor road, East Fremantle, comprising lovely lounge, large dining-room, four bedrooms, kitchen, bathroom, pantry, garage, detached laundry and workshop. Nice lawns and gardens... (reference)
1948 State Housing Commission granted HC Webster a permit to build a brick house in the Metropolitan area… (reference)
1949 Wanted to rent, a flat or half a house with all conveniences by High School teacher and wife. Reply Webster, 18 Windsor-road, East Fremantle. (reference)
1949 The engagement is announced between Patricia Mary, younger daughter of Mrs. I. Box and the late Mr. R. Box, of 25 Allen street, East Fremantle, and Lance Vincent Webster, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Webster, 18 Windsor-road, East Fremantle, formerly of Sahibganj, Bihar, India. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1909 - 1911: Taylor, Wilfred F.
1912 - 1936: Taylor, David G.
1936 - 1946: Saunders, Horace
1947: Badman
1949: Webster, Henry C.
