This home in the heart of Fremantle is truly exceptional - a resplendent historical home across two levels, which is in fact two adjoining homes and perfectly suited to a multi-generational family or to a clever buyer who wants to reside whilst earning an income. With a City Centre zoning, the flexible layout lends itself to be used for a magnitude of options, such as a hospitality or retail space, office/consulting rooms, short stay accommodation and more.
Currently used exclusively as a family home, it was built in 1860 (and extended ten years later) by William Jose who designed it to be versatile warehouse, incorporating his grocery shop, and a family home for his wife and five children.
Stepping inside house one, a central hall passes the huge master suite with an adjoining walk-in dressing room, equal in size to the master bedroom and featuring an entire wall of built- in robes.
There are two formal loungerooms; the 'red' room is also used as a dining room and leads to the second bedroom - a gracious space common only to these historical homes. And from here the most exquisite room of all - a big corner lounge with soaring ceilings and white walls which are flooded with natural light. Mr Jose's ceiling 'flitch beam' has been retained; an architectural feature of the era sandwiching a steel plate in a big wooden beam.
There's a study and bathroom with a bathtub on the way to the rear enclosed sleepout/studio/bedroom - a room on the upper storey flooded with natural light also, and an exquisite view to the garden. The floors and staircases (there are two) throughout are jarrah - some bleached to give a honeyed tone. The stairs down to the kitchen have a beautiful patina courtesy of 140 years of use.
Adjoining this kitchen is a cosy loungeroom, with beetroot-dyed feature wall - the paint effect achieved with a wax finish; one of many special paint effects throughout the home. There's a third bedroom here too.
The rear garden is exceptional with limestone walls and mature trees interspersed with lawns and recycled brick paving, featuring special little nooks with rustic garden benches and more refined courtyards. There's an outdoor entertaining area closer the home too and it's hard to believe in this shady retreat we are right in the heart of Fremantle.
Entering house number two from this rear garden takes us past a second kitchen, down a rustic limewashed limestone hall, past a lounge room with adjoining bathroom that'd be prefect for the children. Further down the hall are two more bedrooms.
5 Bedrooms 2.5 Bathrooms 1.5 Cars 540sqm (Approx.)
Main features
- City Centre Zoning - allowing mixed use
- Limestone and brick construction
- In the heart of Fremantle
- Two joining homes - two kitchens, five bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms, two formal loungerooms, two small loungerooms, study, music room, studio and a cellar with trap door access from the loungeroom.
- Original Jarrah floors and staircases
- Verandas front and rear
- Pressed tin ceiling in the kitchen
- Exposed beams in downstairs bedrooms
- High ceilings throughout upstairs
- Fireplaces retained
- Lockable parking for two small cars
- Stunning private gardens, blending lawns with gardens, mature trees, limestone retaining walls and recycled brick paving
- Huge outdoor entertaining area
- Garden shed
- Massive underfloor storage room and a huge attic space
- Rear lane access
Location
260m - Esplanade Park including skate park
60m - Bathers Beach
50m - Fremantle Markets
600m - Fremantle Primary School
1.3kms - Lance Holt School
850m - St Patricks Primary School
950m - John Curtin College of the Arts
Council Rates for 26 Norfolk St: $1, 967.79 per annum (Approx.)
Council Rates for 28 Norfolk St: $1, 967.79 per annum (Approx.)
Water Rates for 26 Norfolk St: $1, 327.35 per annum (Approx.)
Water Rates for 28 Norfolk St: $1, 327.35 per annum (Approx.)
Please call Michael Harries on 0434 076 229 for further details
