ARCHITECTURE
Inter/ Post War Bungalow Porch House
No. 42 Fortescue Street is a single-storey house constructed in limestone and rendered-brick, with a hipped and tiled roof. It is an expression of the Inter-War Porch style. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with a hipped-roof porch. The porch is set on Tuscan columns, which rest on rendered piers, with a rendered masonry balustrade spanning between them. There is a central door flanked by sets of casement windows. The rendered walls sit on a limestone foundation and the roofscape features a brick chimney.
The place retains its basic form and details, but has additions to the rear. The lot has been subdivided and a house built at the rear of the property. The place is consistent with the building pattern in the Precinct and plays an important role in the pattern of development of a middle-class suburb.
HISTORY
Research on the history of this property is currently under way by the Museum of Perth in partnership with the Town of East Fremantle.
RESIDENTS
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