ARCHITECTURE
Interwar / Bungalow Porch House
No 40 Windsor Road is a single storey house constructed in painted brick and rendered brick with a hipped and gable corrugated iron roof. It is an expression of the Inter-War Porch style. It is asymmetrically composed with a thrust bay and a half timbered gable roofed porch. The porch is supported on square columns set on limestone piers. An addition has been constructed to the south in a similar style to the existing place. The roof of the addition extends over the thrust bay to act as a sunhood. There is front door is located under the porch and flanked by sets of casement windows. Lower walls are painted brick and the upper walls are rendered. The roofscape features a brick chimney.
HISTORY
1950 Death on March 13, at 40 Windsor-road, East Fremantle, Francis Walter Major, dearly beloved husband of Jessie, loved father of Nita (Mrs. N. Chandler, East Fremantle), and Frank (Bicton), fond father-in-law of Norman and Connie. fond step father of Jim and Jean McAllister, Ann and Don Pinnock, loved grandfather of Ron, Gay, Les, Cathryn, Robin, Peter, Ian, Laurel, Don and Douglas; aged 76 years. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1940 - 1950: Major, Frances W.
