15 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 and cement tile residence.
The house presents with a symmetrical façade incorporating centrally placed entrance flanked by window openings. The entrance comprises timber and glass panelled door with similar side panels and fanlights. The windows are multi-paned casements, reflective of the Georgian era.

The brick elevation is finished with tuckpointing.

The roof is hipped in form, clad in green cement tiles and continues down at the same pitch to form the verandah canopy. Two brick chimneys remain extant both with tuckpoint finish.

The verandah extends across the full width of the elevation, supported on timber posts and has a timber deck.

The garden is enclosed with a timber picket fence and provides for on-site parking.

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 72 was transferred to George William Howie in 1896 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.1925. The Rate Books contain the following listings:

• 1929/30 Oswald Adams – owner & Arthur Nilan (butcher) – occupier
• 1935/36 & 1936/37 – Richard Adams – owner & George Binning – occupier.

The PO Directories list the following occupants:
• 1926 Vacant
• 1927 – 1930 Waltho, Joseph William
• 1931 – 1935/6 Mrs Caroline Nilan
• 1937/38 – 1941/42 Binning, George
• 1942/43 – 1944 Burnham, David
• 1945 – 1949 Doig, Jno

From the above information it is concluded that the residence was constructed c1925 by Oswald William Adams (c1900-1963). The 1925 Electoral Roles record that there were five members of the Adams family living at the Sadlier Road house
• Oswald William Adams – butcher
• Clara Adams – married
• Henry James Adams – woodworker
• Lena Adams – home duties
• William Baldridge Adams – foreman

Further information has determined that Oswald married Lena Wilson (c1899-1984) in 1920. William Baldridge Adams (c1870-1926) was married to Clara (c1871-1946) and Henry was Oswald’s brother.

Aerial photographs indicate that in 2013 the place was extended to the rear and this new addition is clad with terracotta tiles. The original portion of the residence has retained its green tiled roof although it appears that the original roof cladding was green corrugated iron. The form and extent of the building has not changed since then.

Integrity/Authenticity

The change in roofing material impacts on the presentation and authenticity of the place. The design intent remains clearly visible.

Condition

Good

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