51 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 iron (originally tiled) house. The brickwork has been rendered with a smooth finish, removing all evidence of the traditional brick finish.

The house is of asymmetric planform with a dominant projecting wing and veranda across the recessed section of elevation.

The roof form is hipped to the main section and gabled to the projecting wing. The verandah canopy is a separate bullnose positioned under the eaves. The gable has roughcast render with timber batten detail.

The windows are arranged in groups of three timber framed casements with a zincalume and timber canopy.

The recessed section of the elevation contains two door openings the main entrance and a pair of French doors. The main entrance doors is a non-original timber and glass panelled door with leaded glazing and leaded fanlight above.

The verandah canopy is supported on turned timber posts and the deck is timber. The bullnose canopy is not original.

A driveway extends along the eastern boundary, terminating at a garage to the rear of the site. The garden is enclosed by timber picket fence.

History

This portion of Sadlier Street was subdivided for residential lots in 1891 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.

This house has similarity to the group of houses (HN35, 37, 39, 41 and 43) that were probably designed and built by the same developer in the mid to late 1920s. It has not been established who was responsible for the design or construction of these homes.

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 A Ogg – owner & Herbert Beaver (motor mechanic) – occupier
• 1935/36 Herbert Beaver – owner/occupier
• 1936/37 H Rauce – Owner & A Clarville - occupier

The PO directories list the following occupants:
• 1926 Lawson, Arthur
• 1927 Thornton
• 1929 Ogg
• 1930 – 1935/36 Beaver, Herbert
• 1937/38 Dolan, Mrs
• 1939/40 Clarville, Aubrey
• 1940/41 – 1941/42 Smart, Clarence

From the above information it is apparent that this house was largely used as an investment property with few owners occupying the house for long periods.

Aerial photographs indicate the residence has undergone a series of additions and alterations since the 1980s. The most significant alteration and addition took place in c1990 when a large addition was constructed and the tiled roof removed and replaced with zincalume. Further additions followed in the 2000s.

Integrity/Authenticity

The changes to the finishes have reduced the authenticity of the place. The roof has been re-clad and a new large addition constructed at the rear which can be seen in street views.

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