11 Sadlier Street

Parent Place or Precinct

26270 Sadlier and Redfern Street Heritage Area

Statement of Significance

The Sadlier and Redfern Streets heritage area is of:
Aesthetic Value
• As an aesthetically pleasing streetscape with a strong identifiable character, featuring an avenue of mature street trees, which frame views of the largely Inter War residences.
• For its collection of many good, representative examples of Federation and Inter War cottages and villas which collectively illustrate a range and evolution of detailing between the 1920s and the 1940s.
• For the cohesive streetscape created by a limited palette of materials and styles.
Historic Value
• As a representative collection of houses that illustrate the scale and standard of housing for the homes of unskilled workers to semi-professional and tradespeople, in the early twentieth century.
• For the evidence it provides about the manner in which the residence of semi-professional and tradespeople existed alongside the residences of working people and employees.
• For its association with the subdivision and rapid settlement of the area from the 1920s to the 1930s which demonstrates the rapid change of the district in this period.
Representativeness
• As a good representative collection of early twentieth century housing developed within walking distance of transport and services.
Physical Form in the Public Realm
• The houses, which (with the exception of three modern dwellings) were developed predominantly in the period 1920s to 1940s, have largely retained their original external detailing and form. The defined period and nature of development has resulted in a consistent palette of materials and form, enlivened by diversity of individual details, within a cohesive streetscape.

Physical Description

Single storey brick house with replacement roof and substantial two storey addition to the rear.

The original section of house is of brick construction with tuckpoint finish and a rendered band extending at sill level.

The gabled section has a projecting timbered gable feature with weatherboard cladding and brackets. The window below has a Colorbond awning but the window cannot be seen.

French doors are located to the rear of the verandah area. The verandah has a skillion canopy and concrete deck.

The roof is hipped and gabled, clad in Colorbond.

The front garden is paved and provides for on-site parking.

The two storey addition at the rear is highly visible from street level.

History

This portion of Sadlier Street was subdivided for residential lots in 1893 by owners, the NSW company, Intercolonial Investment Land and Building Company. However the lots were not taken up rapidly. In 1896, lots in the Redfern Estate, Subiaco were advertised in the local press as ‘Good Building Lots, near the railway line’. The subdivision was managed by Alfred Axon, the local branch manager for the Intercolonial Investment Land and Building Company. Axon was also a significant individual investor in Subiaco property.

Lot 70 was transferred to William Richard Hodgson in 1897 but there is no evidence to indicate that the land was developed by this owner. Analysis of Rate Books and PO Directories indicates that this place was likely constructed c.1928.

The Rate Books contain the following listings:
• 1929/30 Peter Barron owner/occupier
• 1935/36 D Gray – owner & Henry Bradshaw – occupier
• 1936/37 D Gray –owner & Stanley Woodstock - occupier

The PO Directories list the following occupants:
• 1929 – 1933/34 Peter Barron
• 1934/35 Vacant
• 1935/36 Mrs E Bradshaw
• 1939/40 – 1941/42 Woodstock, Stanley
• 1942/43 – 1944 Herd, Allister
• 1945 – 1949 Mrs E Crawford

From the available information this residence was built for driver, Peter John Barron. Peter Barron (c1900-1965) had been living with his parents Patrick and Rose Barron at HN9 Sadlier Street prior to building this property.

On Peter Barron’s marriage to Ethel May Blacklock (c1898-1938) in 1925 the couple lived with Peter’s parents until the construction of this residence in c1928.
Aerial photographs indicate the original residence was roofed in corrugated iron which was replaced with zincalume as part of a major extension c1990. The form and extent of the residence has not changed since those works and the original intent of the building can still be determined.

Integrity/Authenticity

Although the house presents with a moderate degree of authenticity the rear addition is highly prominent and impacts on its contribution to the streetscape. The high impermeable hedge along the street boundary obscures views to the house from the street.

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