ARCHITECTURE
Inter-War Bungalow Porch House with Arts & Crafts Influences
No 79 View Terrace is a single-storey house constructed in limestone, painted brick and rendered brick with a gabled corrugated iron roof. It is a simple expression of the Inter-War Bungalow style. There are some of the style characteristics of Arts and Crafts such as the gable treatments. The roof form comprises a major and minor gable and then a verandah roof. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with a full-width return hip roofed verandah. The verandah is supported on timber posts. A vertical timber balustrade spans between the posts. The entrance door is located on the east elevation under the return verandah. The minor gable features a bay window with small pane casement windows. The bay window is flanked by a set of French doors. There is also a skillion roofed garage to the west of the house. The garage appears to be a later addition. The place sits on limestone foundations. The roofscape features a masonry chimney.
HISTORY
1936 Lost, Baby's Cashmere Shawl, on Friday afternoon, in East Fremantle or Beaconsfield tram. Finder please return to 79 View-terrace, East Fremantle. Reward. (reference)
1936 Houses And Land For Sale. East Fremantle, 79 View-terrace: Brick, Tiled House, overlooking river; small deposit, £750. Stead, 18 Mary-st., Fremantle. (reference)
1937 Birth on November 12, at King Edward Memorial (private ward), to Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Barrett, of 79 View-terrace, East Fremantle—a son(Ross Graeme). Both well. (reference)
1939 East Fremantle, 79 View-terrace. Brick, 4 rooms, kitchen, 22/6. Stead, 18 Mary-st. Tel. L1188. (reference)
1948 Boy’s Face Burnt. Mishap While Killing Ants.For treatment of severe burns to the face. Norman Ashton (8), of 79 View-terrace, East Fremantle, was admitted to the children's ward of the Fremantle Hospital yesterday morning. His name is on the provisional danger list. Keith Raymond Stead told Sgt. A T. Hulin, of East Fremantle, that he had been killing ants in the backyard of the house at 79 View-terrace by applying a small quantity of methylated spirits and setting it alight. He was accompanied by Ashton and they were standing about a yard away from a hole when it suddenly blazed up and the flames were carried by the wind direct into the boy's face. (reference)
1949 Motors, Bicycles, Etc. Vauxhall sports Tourer, 1988, 14h.p., exc. cond., appearance, well shod. 79 View-.terrace. E. Ftle. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1931 - 1936: Robert Semple
1936 - 1937: Edward A. Weeks
1937 - 1938: John Monkhouse
1938 - 1939: Stan R. Barrett
1939 - 1941: Ken Lister
1941 - 1947: William Ashton
1949: Keith Stead
