ARCHITECTURE
Interwar / Adapt. / Porch house w Arts and Crafts / Art Deco Influences
No. 56 (previously was No. 114) King Street is a single storey house constructed in brick with a hipped and gabled corrugated iron roof. It is an Inter-War Bungalow style house with later modifications. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with a prominent gabled roof verandah set on brick piers. There is a vertical timber balustrade between the piers. The gable has half timbering decorative treatment and a spindled frieze. The verandah would appear to be a late addition. There is a central door flanked by sets of three casement windows. One window sits under the verandah and the other has a sunhood over it.
HISTORY
1926 When Alfred Alex. Yeing was backing a motor truck in Murray-street. on October 18, he collided with a horse and cart, causing the three occupants of the cart to be thrown to the ground and badly shaken. Through his counsel, Mr. N. P. Lappin, he pleaded not guilty to a charge of negligent driving, but after considerable evidence had been called Mr. Lappin stated that the case for the prosecution was so strong that he did not propose to continue with the defence. Yeing was fined £2, with £2 15s. 6d, costs. (reference)
1932 Funeral. The Friends of Mr. J. F. Brown, of East Fremantle, and Mrs. J. E. Brown, of Katanning, are respectfully informed that the remains of their late beloved father, Horace Brown (Jack), will be interred in the Church of England Cemetery, Fremantle. The Funeral will leave the residence of his son, Mr. J. F. Brown, 114 King-street, East Fremantle. (reference)
1942 Death on July 19, at the residence of her son-in-law, P. J. Clegg, Catherine, widow of the late Griffith Owen, formerly of 56 King-street, East Fremantle, loving mother of Minnie, Ethel (Mrs. P. J. Clegg), David, William, Griffith; fond mother-in-law of Martha, Kathleen and Sarah; grandmother of Raymond, Margaret, Gweneth, Beryl, Rae, Winnie and Dot (Canberra); in her 89th year. (reference)
1943 Death on May 23, at her home, 56 King-street, East Fremantle, Mary Vera, dearly beloved youngest by daughter of Fortunato and Mattia Placanica loving sister of Rose, Frank, Tony, Louie and Millie: fond sister-in-law of Jean, Thelma and Edna, and loving fiancee of John Forster; aged 18 years. R.I.P. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1914: Gillies, James
1915: Bateman, George A.
1916 - 1922: Pickering, Joseph W.
1923: Ramsay, Alexander
1924: Placanica, Mattia
1925: Beard, John
1926: Paterson, Thomas
1927 - 1930: Yeing, Alex
1932: Spark, George A.
1933 - 1935: Brown, John F.
1935 - 1937: Middleton, R. G.
1937 - 1939: Vacant
1939 - 1944: Placanica, Fortunato
