Buildings...
Long a feature of the port city, The Terrace houses form an impressive public facade of the Fremantle Prison. The conservation work on House Nos 10 and 12 The Terrace, to provide bed and breakfast accommodation, was completed by the Building Management Authority in February 1993.
English Engineer Edmund Henderson’s design brief was to provide accommodation for the officers adjoining the prison. As the regulations governing the prison and the State Public Service altered over time, the officials who lived in the front row of houses also varied. House 10, first built in 1853 for the Chaplain, was appropriated by the Superintendent in 1878 and later acquired by the prison bureaucracy for administration purposes. House No 12, completed in 1854, was the former Gatekeeper’s House.
