ARCHITECTURE
Spanish Mission Porch House
No 9 Fortescue Street is a single storey house constructed in limestone rendered brick with a hipped and gabled Cordova tiled roof. It is a fine expression of the Inter-War Spanish Mission style. The front elevation is asymmetrically planned with a half hipped roofed entry porch. The entry porch is accented with three arches supported on piers and barley twist columns. A wrought steel balustrade spans between the piers. This arrangement sits over a limestone wall. There is a pair of glazed entry doors flanked by casement windows. The rendered walls sit on a limestone foundation. The roofscape features a rendered chimney.
HISTORY
1936 Death on November 16, at his residence, 9 Fortescue-street, East Fremantle, Charles Albert, dearly beloved husband of Lillian May Bailey, late of Pinnaroo, South Australia, and formerly of Boulder City, Western Australia, and loving father of Bert, Cliff and Shirley; aged 55 years. (reference)
1936 Mr. Charles Albert Bailey, of 9 Fortescue-street, East Fremantle, and late of Wongan Hills, and Pinnaroo (South Australia), and formerly of the Ivanhoe Goldmine, Boulder City, died on Monday last. The funeral took place yesterday afternoon, when the remains were interred in the Church of England portion of the Fremantle Cemetery. The Rector of St. Peter's Church, East Fremantle (the Rev. W. K. Elphick) officiated at the graveside. Mr. Bailey was born at Dublin, South Australia, and came to this State in 1901. Shortly after his arrival he went to the Eastern Goldfields, where he was on the Ivanhoe Goldmine, Boulder City, for 12 years, during four years of which he was shift boss. While on the Goldfields he was interested in Masonic affairs and was a member of Lodge Mossgiel No. 902 S.C. He then returned to Pinnaroo, South Australia and came back to Western Australia in 1925, when he took up farming property at Wongan Hills. (reference)
1943 Funeral. The Friends of the late Mrs. Edith Mannion, JP, of 9 Fortescue-street, East Fremantle, are respectfully informed that her remains will be interred in the Methodist portion of the Fremantle Cemetery. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1933 - 1936: Cartledge, A H
1936 - 1938: Bailey, Mrs Lillian
1938 - 1942: Davies, Elvin
1942 - 1949: Bailey, Mrs Lillian B
1943- Mannion, E
