Architecture
Late Victorian / Early Federation / Georgian Influences
No. 77 (previously was no. 169) Duke Street is a single-storey house in painted masonry with a hipped ‘M’ format corrugated iron roof. It is a simple expression of the Federation Bungalow style. The front elevation is symmetrically planned with a central door flanked by windows. The facade features a full-width bull-nose roofed verandah on timber posts with a deep timber frieze and post brackets.
The place is consistent with the pattern of development in Plympton and plays an important role in the pattern of development of a working class suburb.
History
AIF 1917, George Watts Irving (Regimental number 1160) Occupation Clerk, Single, Age at embarkation 21. Next of kin Father, Harry Irving, 169 Duke st, East Fremantle, Western Australia.
1929 Prize recipe of Gingerbread Sponge & Gooseberry Sponge awarded to Mrs. N. Irving. (reference)
1929 Mrs. N. Irving receives honorable mention in the Sunday Times for her Orange Delight, Pineapple Delight and Ringed Pineapple Cream. (reference)
1944 On January 26, at her residence, 77 Duke-street, East Fremantle, Ellen Irving, loving wife of Harry Irving, devoted mother of Lena (Mrs P. Davey), George and Edward (Ted): aged 75 years. Loving sister of the late Bertha Roberts, Sister-in-law of William, and loved aunt of Irene, Dorothy, Lena, Ted and Nancy. Grandmother of Joyce (Mrs Toop) and Sid, Doss (Mrs Clarke) and Allen, and great-grandmother of Allen and Brian, Grandmother of Iris (Mrs Lunne Garner) and Eric. (reference)
Residents
1913 - 1949: Irving, Harry
