ARCHITECTURE
Inter-War Half Hip Porch House w Arts & Crafts Influences
No 23 Oakover Street is a single storey house constructed in tuck-pointed brick and rendered brick with a hipped and gable tiled roof. It is an expression of the Inter-War California Bungalow style. It is asymmetrically composed with an offset gabled roofed porch. The porch is supported on square columns set on piers. There is a central door flanked by casement windows. Lower walls are face brick and upper walls are rendered. The roofscape features finials.
HISTORY
1933 Marriage on May 20, at Scots Church, Fremantle, by the Rev. A. E. Brice, Sidney Thomas, third son of Mr. H. Binning and the late Mrs. Binning, of Herbert-street, North Fremantle, to Maud (Bood), eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Munro, of Thompson-road, North Fremantle. Present address, 23 Oakover-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
1943 Birth on July 22, at Woodside Hospital, East Fremantle, to Bood and Sydney, of 23 Oakover-street, East Fremantle—a son (Hayden). Both well. (reference)
1949 Lottery Result. The drawing of Charities Consultation No. 457 yesterday resulted: First Prize. £3.000: No. 39791, Sydney Binning, 23 Oakover-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1933 - 1949: Binning, Sidney T.
