House, 24 Troy Tce, Daglish

Parent Place or Precinct

24361 Daglish Conservation Area

Statement of Significance

The place has cultural heritage significance for the City of Subiaco:
• As a good example of the well-built housing constructed when Daglish was being consolidated as an established suburb in the 1930s (aesthetic and historic values).
• For its contribution to the Inter-War, Garden Suburb qualities of the 1925 subdivision of Daglish (aesthetic values).

Physical Description

Roof form and materials
• Hipped-gabled roof clad with autumn-toned tiles and finished with rams-horn terracotta finials.
• Exposed rafters to the eaves.
• Main roof extending in a hipped form over the front verandah.
• Tall, rendered chimney, capped by a terracotta chimney pot.
Wall materials and finishes
• Face-brick façade to window sill height; rendered above.
• Rock-faced stone foundations.
Form and detailing of main façade(s)
• Asymmetrical stepped façade.
• Projecting wing on the north-eastern side of the main façade, featuring a gabled roof; and vertical and diagonal gable battens.
• Mixture of double and triple casement windows with raked, face-brick sills.
Note: the windows to the projecting wing have plain glass, but the others retain original leadlight glazing in an inter-war style pattern.
• Raked, tiled window awning with simple timber brackets to the projecting wing.
• Verandah abutting the projecting wing and extending partway across the south-western side of the main façade; accessed by wide splayed entrance steps.
• Robust masonry verandah posts, each with face brick to the lower section; a mid-level rendered, stepped detail; a smaller rendered post to the upper section; and a contrasting face-brick cap.
• Rendered masonry verandah balustrade wall with a contrasting brick panel at the centre.
• Central entrance door, set under the verandah and abutting the projecting wing.
Streetscape setting
• Main façade set back approx. 7.5m from the front boundary.
• Front boundary defined by a low shrubs.

History

In 1925, the first part of the suburb of Daglish was laid out by the State Government on an undeveloped railway reserve, with the subdivision applying elements of the Garden Suburb model of development. In October 1925 the first auction for the new town site resulted in the sale of 96 of the 110 lots offered in the area bounded by Troy Terrace, part of Robinson Street, what is now Olga Place, Stubbs Terrace, the southern end of Cunningham Terrace and Millington Avenue. The reserve prices for different lots were set at £50, £75 and £100, with the price increasing with proximity to the railway .
Analysis of the Subiaco Rate Books suggests that 24 Troy Terrace was constructed in c.1934 for a Mrs Burgenner, but no other references have been found for this surname in Western Australia. Based on the following information it is possible that ‘Burgenner’ was actually a recording or transcription error for ‘Curgenven’.
In the 1937-38 Rate Books, Hugh and Florence Curgenven were listed as the owners and Hugh was also listed as the primary occupant in the Post Office Directories of 1936-1939. In the Electoral Rolls they were described as Hugh Raymond Curgenven (postal employee) and Florence Mabel Curgenven (home duties). This couple had married in Perth in 1924. By the 1940s they had settled in South Perth.
The property changed hands in c.1938-39 and John Denis Robertson (retired) was the owner/occupant from 1940, living here with his wife, Ethel May Robertson (home duties) until around the time of his death in 1967. Ethel was still listed at this address in the Electoral Rolls of 1980, together with Joan Dorothy Robertson (stenographer).
Historical aerial photographs show that rear additions were constructed in the mid-late 1990s. New rear additions were constructed in c.2015.

Integrity/Authenticity

High: The original external detailing appears to be largely intact.

Condition

Based on a streetscape inspection the buildings appear to be in a good condition.

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