ARCHITECTURE
No 242A Canning Highway is a single storey house constructed in brick and rendered brick with a hipped tiled roof. It is an expression of the Inter-War Porch style. It is asymmetrically composed with a thrust bay and a flat roofed porch. The porch is supported on rendered masonry columns. A masonry balustrade spans between the columns. The thrust bay features a set of casement windows under a sunhood. There is a central door flanked by sets of casement windows. Lower walls are face brick and the upper walls are rendered. The roofscape features a tall brick chimney and finials.
HISTORY
1933 Death on October 24, at Fremantle, David Richardson, dearly beloved husband of Elizabeth Travis Richardson, of 242 Canning-road, East Fremantle, and loving father of Donald and Marjorie; aged 63 years. (reference)
1934 Auction. No. 242 Canning-Road, East Fremantle: A Brick tiled roof Villa Residence, of five rooms, with large block of land, let at 25/ per week. Subject to mortgage to Building Society of about £680. (reference)
1936 Witnesses Wanted. The traffic police at Fremantle are trying to get in touch with witnesses of an accident at the Victoria Quay end of the James-street bridge on May 21, when Fader Miller (about 40), of McKimmie street, Palmyra, received spinal injuries. Miller was riding his motor cycle over the bridge, following three cyclists and a motor car driven by Ronald M. Fisher, of Canning-road, East Fremantle. When Fisher had crossed the bridge and was turning to his right on to the wharf, Miller swerved to avoid a collision with the car, and in doing so skidded and was thrown from his cycle. Miller's condition is reported to be unchanged. (reference)
RESIDENTS
1929 - 1934: Richardson, David
1934 - 1935: Smith, J. A.
1935 - 1949: Fisher, Ron M.
