Constructed using convict labour, the walls are limestone and the roof has Dutch gables with shingle covering.

[2] By February 1852, the Resident Magistrate of Fremantle wrote to the Colonial Secretary on the subject of re-establishing the school.

[2] The design of the building is credited to William A Sanford, the then Colonial Secretary, who also served as Chairman of the Board of Education in the early 1850s.

At the time of its opening, the school was described by the Fremantle Inquirer as '...remarkably handsome but in our opinion far too expensive for what it was built for'.

He admitted that the Government Fremantle Boys' School would not meet the requirements of the population without further extension and that '...indeed, I am now, at the urgent request of the Board, obliged to put the Colony to a considerable expense in providing additional school accommodation to satisfy the actual requirements of Fremantle'.

At this time, the Fremantle Boys' School had 336 pounds 19 shillings 11 pence spent on it for fencing and repairs, provided by the PWD.

New, better ventilated and brighter main halls were added to several large schools at that time, particularly those with attendances over 350 students.

[1] This shingle roofed single storey limestone building in a Victorian Tudor style with Dutch gables, was constructed utilising convict labour.

The building was firstly constructed as a single room with a porch with curvilinear parapeted gables and finials.

In 1891, a verandah was added to the west face of the original room and included a set of lavatory basins.

These classrooms encircle the hall and form the major visual addition to the original concept when viewed from Adelaide Street.

[2] In 1900, the single classroom addition by Beasley completed the encircling of the original school room by filling the last gap to the northern side and required some demolition to make a connection.

[2] In 1910-11, the works of 1910, under Beasley, virtually completed the school's growth with the addition of the science room, two new classrooms and a cloakroom.

These additions had brick infill walls to allow for further expansion in the westerly direction; all rooms remain and have been subject to change.

In 1973, the present configuration of the building remains near to its 1901 shape, but the interiors were extensively remodelled by John Rowney to accommodate the Perth Institute of Film and Television.

[2] This article incorporates text from the source Australian Heritage Database – Perth Institute of Film and Television, 92 Adelaide St, Fremantle, WA, Australia, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC-BY 4.0).