House, 142 Aberdare Road, Shenton Park

Parent Place or Precinct

24362 Shenton Park Conservation Area

Values

• The place is a representative example of the type of housing constructed in the Inter-War period in the Metropolitan region.
• The place is representative with the development of the Shenton Park area in the Inter-War period.
• The place has some aesthetic value as a modest example of a vernacular cottage

Physical Description

House, 142 Aberdare Road, is located within the Shenton Park Conservation Area which is an area identified in City of Subiaco Town Planning Scheme as the Shenton Park Precinct. The area contains a number of early homes although there are also areas of recent redevelopment. Traditional houses are single storey masonry or rendered masonry construction with corrugated iron or tiled roofs, and porches or verandahs. Typically houses are of the Federation Bungalow or Queen Anne style with some more recent Inter-War Californian Bungalow style homes, particularly at the western end of the area, with a number of timber framed weatherboard and iron houses, which are generally interspersed with masonry homes. The area south of Onslow Road is characterised by fairly intact streets of timber framed, weatherboard and iron houses, some dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

History

The land subdivision and settlement of this property is typical of the early settlement of Shenton Park. Suburban Lot 319, of approximately eight acres was purchased by pawnbroker, Phineas Seeligson in 1891. He subdivided the property into smaller residential lots in 1897. The lots were sold progressively with many transferred together in 1898 to carpenter Arthur Henry Forwood.
This residence was built c1924 for Owen Gregory Holli Day (c1850-1933) and his wife Fanny, nee Hancock (c1850-1940). Owen Day was a mason and he may have had some input into the construction of the house.

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