43 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 terracotta tiled house.

The house is of brick construction with the front elevation presenting with three finishes. The lower third is smooth rendered brick, the middle section is tuckpointed brick and the top section of the elevation is roughcast render. The gable has fibro cladding and timber battens. The gable feature also contains a three section window with leaded casements, rendered sill and a terracotta tiled canopy.

The verandah is located to the south west corner and contains the main entrance which is a timber and glass panelled door and small high level window. The hipped roof canopy is supported on a broad masonry column and slender timber posts. The verandah deck is painted concrete.

The roof line consists of staggered gables, one positioned behind the other, clad with terracotta tiles and adorned with terracotta finials and brick chimney with honeypot flue.

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.

In 1894, lots 21 and 22 were transferred to Eva Susannna Morison, wife of William Bettesworth Morison of Wagga Wagga, NSW. There is no information to suggest the lots were developed by this owner.

In 1923, the two lots were transferred to Robert Leslie Beatty, a salesman of Swanbourne. In 1926, the lots were transferred to Bertha Smith the wife of Fred Smith, stonemason. It is proposed that Fred Smith constructed this residence as an investment property for resale as Rate Books and PO Directories indicate that this place was likely to have been constructed c.1927.

It is possible that this house was one of group of houses (HN35, 37, 39, 41 and 43) that were designed and built by the same developer because of their similarity. It has not been established who was responsible for the design or construction of these homes.

In 1931, lot 22 was transferred to Stanley Joseph Bullin, a hardware assistant of West Leederville and in 1943 to Ronald Reginald Stonehouse, a machinist who lived at the house. The property remained with his wife Mary Lillian Stonehouse until 1968 and then transferred to Cyril Claude Dye.

The Rate Books contain the following listings:
• 1929/30 George Osborne (brick layer) – owner/occupier
• 1935/36 Ronald Fletcher – owner & Samuel Bingley – occupier (this is inconsistent with the (Certificate of Title)
• 1936/37 Ronald Fletcher – owner & Mrs Eva Channing – occupier (this is inconsistent with the (Certificate of Title)

The PO directories list the following occupants:
• 1928 – 1929 Smith, David Sloan
• 1930 – 1932 Osborne, R
• 1933 – 1934/35 Hudson, Harry
• 1935/36 – 1937/38 Fletcher, Ron
• 1939/40 – Channing, Mrs Eva
• 1940/41 – 1949 Stonehouse, Ronald

The first owner of this place was bricklayer George Osborne (c1865-1936) who in 1931 was retired and living in Churchill Avenue Subiaco with his wife Bessie and daughter Dorothy May. They rented this property and after George’s death in 1936, Bessie sold the house to Ronald Fletcher who continued to predominantly rent the property.
Aerial photographs indicate a corrugated iron skillion roof was present at the rear of the house until the mid 1980s. Shortly thereafter the skillion roof was extended and tiled. Other minor additions and alterations have occurred since but the original form and extent of the residence can still be determined.

Integrity/Authenticity

The house presents with a high level of authenticity, the changes are small and do not impact on its presentation. Its design intent can be readily understood.

Condition

Good

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